The Weight Podcast

Full Service

The Weight was a dream that Chris, Eddie, and I carried for a long time — and in 2020, we finally launched it. The show creates space for honest conversations about the heavy topics in our culture, hosted by Chris McAlilly (lead pastor at Oxford University UMC, where this project lives as part of my work) and Eddie Rester (now lead pastor at Lovers Lane UMC in Dallas). The guest list has been a gift: Kate Bowler, Shane Claiborne, Leonard Sweet, Adam Hamilton, and Aimee Nezhukumatathil — whose audiobook, recorded in this same studio, has its own page in this portfolio — among many others.

Six seasons and 264 episodes in, with over 170,000 downloads, the show just entered a new chapter: Season 7 marks the shift from audio-only to a full video format, produced in the studio I designed and built at the church. Chris hosts in-studio; Eddie and our guests join remotely via Riverside.

My role covers everything except booking the guests: the brand and design, social media, recording and remote production, post-production editing, and — the truest line in any church job description — whatever else needs to be done.