The Plain Values Podcast EP #34 – Linda Kate: As Compassionate as a Judge
In this episode of The Plain Values Podcast, Marlin sits down with his neighbor and friend, retired judge Linda Kate. Linda shares her journey from a small-town Catholic upbringing in…
The Plain Values Podcast EP #33 – Brian Dahlen: What it Means to Follow Christ in a Complicated World
In this episode of The Plain Values Podcast … Marlin invites listeners into a warm, wide-ranging conversation with his friend Brian Dahlen. Brian spent 17 years hosting live radio for…
The Plain Values Podcast EP #32 – Tom and Ferree Hardy: A Widow and Widower with a Beautiful Second Chapter
In this episode of The Plain Values Podcast … Some stories remind us that God writes better endings than we ever could. Tom and Ferree Hardy both lost their spouses…
The Plain Values Podcast EP #31 – Kristen Smith on Faith, Family, and Natural Health
In this episode of The Plain Values Podcast … Kristen Smith never planned on becoming an herbalist. As the oldest of three, she grew up surrounded by farmland in northwest…
The Plain Values Podcast EP #30 – Zach & Katie Miller: From Brokenness to Building Men (and a Homestead)
In this episode of The Plain Values Podcast … Some stories don’t just inspire you, they quietly rebuild your hope. That’s what happened the moment I sat down with Zach…
The Plain Values Podcast EP #29 – Turning Wheelchairs into Witness, One Restored Life at a Time
In this episode of The Plain Values Podcast … Joni Eareckson Tada was 17 when a diving accident in 1967 left her quadriplegic. What followed was not defeat. She learned…
The Plain Values Podcast EP #28 – An Amish Preacher and a Former Real Estate Guru Walk Into a Hospital
In this episode of The Plain Values Podcast … Most of us have felt it… that quiet exhaustion when the body is running on empty and the spirit feels even…
The Plain Values Podcast EP #27 – The One Question That Changed an Entire Movement
In this episode of The Plain Values Podcast … It was in his hometown church where Ryan Wolfe grew up and was drawn early to adults with intellectual disabilities who…
The Plain Values Podcast EP #26 – Nobody Talks About It. Melissa Brown Will Never Stop Fighting It.
In this episode of The Plain Values Podcast … Melissa Brown never planned to lead Ohio’s largest faith-based residential home for teen survivors of sex trafficking. A Catalyst conference umbrella…
The Plain Values Podcast EP #25 – She Miscarried, Then God Called Her to Save Lives She Never Expected.
In this episode of The Plain Values Podcast, Bekah Hilty, executive director of the Pregnancy Care Center of Wayne County (in Ohio), shares her unexpected path into ministry. From a…
The Plain Values Podcast EP #24 – An Absolute Miracle, Lived in Six Irreplaceable Years
In this raw and unforgettable episode of The Plain Values Podcast, photographer Eric Brown opens his studio in rural Eastern NC and his life. He talks with Marlin about his…
The Plain Values Podcast EP #23 – He Saw Too Much as a Paramedic … Then the Land Started Healing Him
Jake Drumm, a longtime paramedic now running Drumm Emergency Solutions and managing Watauga Flats Farm in East Tennessee, sat down for a raw, beautiful conversation. He shares stories from the…










