Welcome!

Welcome to Heavy Things Lightly by John Heers and First Things Foundation. That’s a lot of words. Here’s what they mean: You are reading words that First Things Foundation, and its founder, John Heers, are proud to share.

And what is First Things in 2025? It’s unique and at this point impossible to miss. We are an organization that is in the business of healing. Our work includes healing folks in the Old World (the developing world), and the New World (the West). That healing starts with the First Things, and the first things start with human relationships. We aim to unite people in authentic ways to create long lasting relationships that lead to beauty incarnate. Right now we do this in two ways:

At home we offer the Supra dinner and a restaurant that offers the Supra with great food and unrivaled hospitality.

Overseas in developing countries we offer human beings to live an existence that radiates the Supra, that radiates hospitality and the notion of healing. Those human beings offer aid in the form of authentic projects, on the ground, in real time.

I do my best to post once a month, and I offer invitations to supporters to discuss the subject matter with me on a monthly Zoom meet-up. We talk a lot about history and philosophy, theology and economics, and we use an Old World Christian chassis to make sense of it all.

Our goal is to bring you deep insights on the Old World in order to understand the New. And understand we must, because it is a world with sharp teeth and powerful jaws, and if we don’t pay attention, it will eat us all alive. May this offering do something like… help. May it bring something like alignment into heart and home. And so… welcome to the Heavy Things Lightly Substack, by John Heers and First Things Foundation.