The Plain Values Podcast EP #07 – Dave Stauffer on Mental Health and Community Healing
Dave Stauffer is the Executive Director of SpringHaven Counseling Center with more than 30 years’ experience in community mental health, residential care, and private practice. A licensed professional clinical counselor…
The Plain Values Podcast EP #06 – Steve Axtell on the life of a professional puppeteer
Steve Axtell is the founder of Axtell Expressions, a world-renowned puppet and animatronics company whose creations are used by performers in more than 80 countries. From Disney and Universal to…
The Plain Values Podcast EP #05 – David Stelzer (Azure Standard) on Building Something that Lasts
David Stelzer is the founder and CEO of the now legendary Azure Standard. He started farming as a teenager in the 1970s (!) and that passion for real food has…
The Plain Values Podcast EP #04 – Joel Salatin on just about everything
How do you describe a man like Joel Salatin? He’s been an absolute force of nature on the public scene for more than 45 years. Farmer, innovator, thinker, speaker, frontline…
The Plain Values Podcast EP #03 – Tristan Griffin on the joy of trials
Tristan began a beautiful project with his daughter’s future in mind. He and his wife moved the family from Texas (leaving his career in law) and started up Farming with…
The Plain Values Podcast EP #02 – Dale Cramer and John Schmid on miraculous reconciliation
I was introduced to Dale Cramer through an old family friend, John, and the tale he told was one I couldn’t let lie. A young Amish man running away from…
The Plain Values Podcast EP #01 – Shawn and Beth Dougherty on gain through grief
Shawn and Beth have written for Plain Values magazine for many years, and we finally made the time to have the conversation I’ve longed to have with them for years. …
Minute with Marlin EP #9 – The Deep Gift of True Hospitality
The concept of hospitality is simple on the surface: invite people over, share a meal, and talk. But Marlin believes it goes much deeper. Our Creator has placed within us…
Minute with Marlin EP #8 – A Mother’s Faith and the Child Who Wasn’t Supposed to Walk
In a village in India, a mother was told by her own family to take her deformed baby boy to the trash heap and leave him there to die. The…
Minute with Marlin EP #7 – One Penny Postage!
We’ve been printing and mailing Plain Values for a long time using the postal system… and Marlin loves it. It’s expensive, but it’s great. In this charming Minute with Marlin,…
Minute with Marlin EP #6 – I Can Hardly Wait
In 1929, at the very beginning of the Great Depression, a man named Albert Brumley sat down in the northwest corner of Arkansas and wrote a song called “I’ll Fly…
Minute with Marlin EP #5 – God Moves in a Mysterious Way
There are seasons when life brings deep, hard things … the loss of a spouse, the burial of a child, a long-term disability, or seasons of uncertainty and anxiety where…










