The Golden Mean by Aristotle

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I'm like every mother ever born or spiritual. I mean, the golden mean by Aristotle, that's a that's a rule book for how to live your life. And it has rational points of entry and points of exit. So what you find is Christians throughout the ages trying to make sense of the spiritual rules by putting them in places like cannons. Then all modern people go, I don't have to follow the cannons when you don’t have to do shit,. Nobody's ever said you have to they're there. You might understand a world that is hard to see. maybe it's wrong. Maybe it's right.

John Heers is the Co-Founder and Director of the First Things Foundation, and the host of the podcast, Why Are We Talking About Rabbits?

The First Things Foundation is a non-profit organization that takes young people from the “new world” of the West to the “old world” of developing countries where they immerse, learn the language, and connect with local entrepreneurs and helps empower them to spur organic, ground-up development in their communities. They have active projects in Guatemala, Sierra Leone, the Georgia Republic, Ethiopia, and Appalachia near and dear to me here in the Rust Belt of the United States.

John has a Master's Degree in History from Columbia University. Previous to First Things Foundation, John worked overseas serving the Peace Corps as a water resource manager in Mali, oversaw emergency relief in the Georgian Republic, and taught history for 9 years in South Bronx and Harlem in New York City and Haiti.

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