Heavy Things Lightly

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...

Uncle Seth is back! And things get a little spicy as the conversation enters into war, where we would fight for, and where this might all end. 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 inform...

Today we kick off our next series tackling a huge question: what is the world? Flat earthers. Round earthers. Physical, metaphysical, and all the bits in-between. And at the end we will cap this off with an in depth discussion. 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-thing...

Today we are pleased to have Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy join us for an look at his life, teachings and work. Fr. McCarthy is a Nobel Peace Prize nominee for his steadfast teaching of Christian Nonviolence around the world.  Fr. McCarthy's work with the Center for Christian Nonviolence: https://www.emmanuelcharlesmccarthy.org/   Does the deep immersive experience interest you? You should co...

Iconographer and Orthodox monk Fr. Silouan Justiniano rejoins WAWTAR to have a serious discussion about the New World. Is it really all that bad? Or are we to enamored with the past to see what we have now in the present?  Fr. Silouan's work and more: https://hieromonksilouan.org/   Does the deep immersive experience interest you? You should consider becoming a Field Worker! Check out our Joi...

 Today John sits down with David Patrick Harry, founder of the  @ChurchoftheEternalLogos channel to talk Orthodoxy, masculinity, truth, and technology.  Does the deep immersive experience interest you? You should consider becoming a Field Worker! Check out our Join FTF page: https://first-things.org/opportunities for more info, or email Daniel at danielpadrnos@first-things.org   Like the podcast?...

Our final entry into bathing of our 4 part series. Getting clean goes beyond the physical and today we look at baptism, maybe the most controversial act of "washing" today.  Does the deep immersive experience interest you? You should consider becoming a Field Worker! Check out our Join FTF page: https://first-things.org/opportunities for more info, or email Daniel at danielpadrnos@first-...

Part 3 of our deep dive (pun intended?) into water. Today Heers takes us around the mostly ancient world to examine all the ways water has been understood and where exactly it leaves us in regard to modern materialism. Does the deep immersive experience interest you? You should consider becoming a Field Worker! Check out our Join FTF page: https://first-things.org/opportunities for more info, or e...

 From the Montanika conference earlier this year. John talks about how we should be living in this world.  Does the deep immersive experience interest you? You should consider becoming a Field Worker! Check out our Join FTF page: https://first-things.org/opportunities for more info, or email Daniel at danielpadrnos@first-things.org   Like the podcast? Join Inside Baseball with John Heers to suppor...