Heavy Things Lightly

Find this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1epb8MOU59E Making pilgrimage to CERN, ancient oracles, auguries, and more. John continues his exploration into intentions and how we are aligning ourselves to a good (or God depending!). And you might be surprised to find that the Old World folk and their entrail readings are that far removed from Physics Girl making pilgrimage to the ultimate scienc...

Find this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/8BNf5N4c318 Uncle Seth returns...with a vengeance! But please be kind, because we truly do love him. Visit us at https://first-things.org/ 2 years. Deep cultural immersion. Intense personal discovery. See what it means to become a Field Worker with FTF: https://first-things.org/opportunities or email Daniel at danielpadrnos@first-things.org for more i...

Find this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/IGUbH5TEUrM The Road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Is it though? Is this a truism or just a clever quote with a particular amount of omph behind it. Today we start down that road - paved or not - and dive into CERN and physics and all these things were we ask ourselves, why are we doing this again? Visit us at https://first-things.org/ 2 year...

Find this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/3t98_ghU2Jc Stephen Roach of the Makers and Mystics podcast joins the show to talk about artistry, how to be comfortable with the paradox that Christianity calls people towards, and developing the arts as a language to talk about the higher things. Makers and Mystics is a podcast exploring the intersections of faith, culture, and art. It is tied to th...

Find this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/3t4deihkPyk Perhaps no type of modern media has had the level of impact as movies. But from their inception until now so much has changed. Are movies redemptive? Can modern movies be redeemed? John talks to the Bazed Lit Analyzer to find out. More on Bazed Lit:   @BAZEDLITANALYZER Visit us at https://first-things.org/ 2 years. Deep cultural immersion....

Find this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/yhChUUGkStQ Richard Rohlin of Universal History and Symbolic World fame rejoins John to talk about race. What is the Christian perspective? How did the enlightenment, the theory of evolution, and more change this understanding? Art of the Tamada coming up quick! New ticket options mean you can chose to join us for just a day or two. Details and ticket...

Find this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/RGfvsPHGBlU Gregg Hurwitz, New York Times best-selling author of the Orphan X series, joins John to talk about writing, our changing new world view, and the terrifying new tools taking over our lives. Discover more about Gregg here: https://gregghurwitz.net/ Visit us at https://first-things.org/ 2 years. Deep cultural immersion. Intense personal disco...

Discover more about Fr. Turbo on his podcast The Royal Path: https://www.youtube.com/@TheRoyalPath Fr Turbo Qualls also contributes to Patristic Faith: https://www.patristicfaith.com/ ------ Visit us at https://first-things.org/ 2 years. Deep cultural immersion. Intense personal discovery. See what it means to become a Field Worker with FTF: https://first-things.org/opportunities or email Daniel a...

Find it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/iM7T0Fkui3w About Sister Anastasia: A member of an Orthodox monastery, she received her MA in Theology from St Vladimir's Seminary. She has long studied ancient praxis and modern addiction in all its varieties, which informs her writing on purification, inner prayer, and the role of the Church in a rapidly changing world. Today she sits down with John to talk a...

Find this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qTjJyeptXiI Dawn Muir is an Orff Specialist teaching K-5 music in Winnipeg, enriched by graduate studies in education at O.I.S.E. (M. Ed) and Cambridge UK (Ph. D), and ongoing studies in Afro-Caribbean dance and drumming, and World Music. Dawn is committed to musical excellence and grounding music in its cultural context. She joins John today to talk...

Find this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/2hJrnGLbCUQ Support Heavy Things Lightly and First Things Foundation through Glassybaby: https://tinyurl.com/v6a9j7zs Vesper Stamper: https://vesperstamper.com/ On Instagram / Youtube:  @vesperillustration  On Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/muj2hbx4 Vesper Stamper is a brilliant illustrator and artist telling stories of (in her words) history's rhymes. I...

Find this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/szSyVWD5qO8 Jason Caros is the headmaster for a Founders Classical Academy in Texas. Founders utilizes a classical approach to education characterized by a traditional liberal arts and sciences curriculum and whole-group teaching methodology with an orientation towards truth, beauty, and goodness. Following on the heels of our conversation with Andrew...

Find this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/J_cDmp250Pk About Justin (from his website - link below): Justin is a freelance writer, speaker and broadcaster who has become known for creating dialogues between Christians and non-Christians. Justin is passionate about creating conversations around faith, science, theology and culture. He has also authored a two books: 'Unbelievable?' and 'The Surp...

Find the YouTube version here: https://youtu.be/GwKAlkCZK-s What is Heavy Things Lightly? What are the conversations we want to have? Or the ideas we want to explore? Here is what we are doing now and in the future. Visit us at https://first-things.org/ 2 years. Deep cultural immersion. Intense personal discovery. See what it means to become a Field Worker with FTF: https://first-things.org/opport...

Find this episode on YouTube: Jordan Hall was for a long time an early tech pioneer, perhaps best known for founding DivX (if you've downloaded or watched any video on the internet you can thank him). However his interests turned towards philosophy and what the future holds for humanity. He founded the Civium Project and Plan B to explore how humanity might become less rivalrous and more win-win....

Buck Johnson (formerly of the Death To Tyrants Podcast), now host of the Counterflow Podcast, is a musician, firefighter and Orthodox Christian and has always had an interest and drive to go one way while everyone else runs the other direction. He joins John to talk about how he came to be Orthodox and why, if we want to discover truth, we have to look beyond just the material. Counterflow Podcast...

Co-Author of Classical Education: The Movement Sweeping America and founder of the CiRCE institute, Andrew Kern joins John today to talk about the history of education, especially in America and maybe where it all went off the rails (hint: it happened before the colonies got their independent streak). They also explore what a return to classical education could look like and what it would mean for...

Find this episode on Youtube: We are the world. Did Michael Jackson and crew get it right back in the 80's? WHAT!? Come and find out as we come to understand the world from a Christian perspective. Visit us at https://first-things.org/ 2 years. Deep cultural immersion. Intense personal discovery. See what it means to become a Field Worker with FTF: https://first-things.org/opportunities or email D...

Dr. Martin Shaw is known as a brilliant teacher of mythic imagination. He is an author, storyteller, and artist. He has written several books including Scatterlings and A Branch from the Lightning Tree among others. Find out more about him below. https://drmartinshaw.com/ Support the show 2 years. Deep cultural immersion. Intense personal discovery. See what it means to become a Field Worker with...

Malcolm Collins and his wife Simone are founders of Pronatalist.org - a foundation with a goal to preserve as much of civilization and as many cultures as possible. To do this they provide resources for parents/future parents, advocate for policy changes, and create material and information regarding childcare and education. https://pronatalist.org Support the show 2 years. Deep cultural immersion...

Part 3 of 4 in our quest to answer the question: What is the world? We've covered the science take and now we turn to philosophy, before ending with the "religious."  Plato, Heidegger, and the Last Airbender all make a lovely appearance today on the show. Support the show 2 years. Deep cultural immersion. Intense personal discovery. See what it means to become a Field Worker with FT...

John hosts a few of the guests that came to our 2023 Art of the Tamada event. What does it mean to really feast? What role does the wine play? And how can we invite communities' to rediscover feasting in a time of reenchantment? Art of the Tamada 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA4tFdW_DB8 Support the show 2 years. Deep cultural immersion. Intense personal discovery. See what it means t...

It's part two and it's all about math. Maybe science can define the world for us. Are we all just walking equations? Manifested numbers? Let's find out.  What is the world? Flat earthers. Round earthers. Physical, metaphysical, and all the bits in-between. Purple PBS Video: https://youtu.be/F__elfR3w8c?t=98 Support the show 2 years. Deep cultural immersion. Intense personal discover...

Chinese medicine. Traditional witch doctors. Oriental shamans. What exactly are they doing. With what, or whom, are the communing? Dr. James Mohebali, Chinese medicine practioner, talks with John to illumine the non-rational parts of our reality. Check out the Substack article here: https://johnheersftf.substack.com/p/d... Original news article: https://tinyurl.com/3kdewtp3 FTF Website: https://fi...

Loren Wilkinson is Professor Emeritus at Regent College where he delves into issues like Christianity and the arts, philosophy, and earthkeeping. He is also an author and his latest book, Circles and the Cross: Cosmos, Consciousness, Christ, and the Human Place in Creation can be found here: https://a.co/d/6CyAcIB Visit us at https://first-things.org/ 2 years. Deep cultural immersion. Intense pers...