by Ivan Keim, Plain Values First, a note from Marlin Miller, Publisher of Plain Values Magazine: Across the news and nation, I have sensed a renewed drive to get communities together again, more like the “good ole days.” Now, I’m not a fan of wishing to go back, but the…
Answering the Normiecon Death Cult by Pastor Andrew Isker Yesterday, the editor of the Babylon Bee, Joel Berry, posted on social media his plan for saving America, import tens of millions of people from third-world, socialist, narco-states and just “assimilate them.”
There has been a lot of debate recently about artificial intelligence with the launch of ChatGPT, Silicon Valley’s latest technology darling. To call ChatGPT “intelligent” is misleading, as it has no actual intelligence. Technology like ChatGPT is trained to generate information by ingesting enormous data sets and generating sentences based…
Faith as Allegiance in 1 Samuel 20:1-42 by Pastor Andrew Isker In our passage today, we see the heir to the house of Saul pledge his covenant loyalty to the heir to the house of Jesse. We see a transfer of loyalty in Jonathan between his father’s doomed house and…
by Marlin, Plain Values What do the Amish, little ones with special needs, two nonprofits, four adoptions, two one-room schoolhouses from the 1800s, and a monthly print magazine have to do with homesteading in 2023? It is the story of our family, and it is a joy to share how…
On Monday, January 23rd around 3:30pm, we received a few odd emails, claiming to have found a vulnerability in our site. The email basically said go ahead and check, your site is down, pay us a small amount in Bitcoin and we’ll give you the solution. We work with bug…
When the Lion Lies Down with the Bug by David Treebeard Read Part OneRead Part Two The other day I was hauling a couple of cows to the slaughterhouse when a new-model truck with blacked-out windows blazed past me on the left. Big block letters on the rear window read:…
This week Steven Crowder made headlines for turning down a 50 million dollar term sheet offered by The Daily Wire. The term sheet, which would have forced Steven to sign over his email list, social media accounts, and revenue streams from his Mug Club, among other things from his life’s…
by Pastor Andrew Isker On Friday, January 13, the ATF announced a new rule stating that stabilizing braces on what they had previously classified as “pistols” are now to be considered “short-barreled rifles.” Also, they must be registered as such by all manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and owners within 120 days or be…
by Pastor Andrew Isker On Tuesday, January 10, I testified to the Minnesota Senate Health and Human Services Committee, which was holding a hearing on SF 1, the very first piece of legislation from the new DFL Senate majority in Minnesota. For years, the Minnesota Senate was controlled by a…
To Be or not to Bug by David Treebeard Read Part OneRead Part Three When animals become numbers, human numbers are not far behind. For the past several hundred years since the imaginations of Descartes and other enlighteners permeated our power structures, people have been treated as machines or numbers…
by Pastor Andrew Isker In our passage today, Saul continues his war against David and this war spills over to his own household. And in this passage, we see how a legitimate authority acting as a tyrant can be resisted faithfully.
by J.Pilgrim I’m typing this out while I’m racked out in the back of my SUV in a Walmart parking lot in a college town, sipping a beer. I was attempting to spend New Year’s Day camping at the homestead, but my fan belt frayed out on the drive and…
Our men’s group at church is doing a study on the book Lies Men Believe And The Truth That Sets Them Free by Robert Wolgemuth. We were tasked with picking one of the lies to teach and give a testimony on. To start, I highly recommend the book. It’s a…
The Art and Science of Watching your Animals by A.L. Bork DVM The squeak of the grass, as it’s pinched between tooth and gum, harmonizes with the slow, baritone hoof beats of the flock advancing across the shadowy hillside. Each individual navigates independently, but pulses forward in unison with the…
