New interview: On Fire for God with Josiah Hesse

This week I'm happy to share my interview with Josiah Hesse, author of the new book On Fire for God: Fear, Shame, Poverty, and the Making of the Christian Right.

Josiah was a guest on Exvangelical back in 2018, and we met up in Chicago last week to discuss his new book. The full interview is available on all podcast platforms and on YouTube (subscribing over there will help me become eligible for monetization, so please do so!)

I'm also going to be appearing alongside Josiah in just over a month in Brooklyn for an event at Urbane Arts Club. That event, called From Pews to Prose, will also feature Mattie Jo Cowsert & B.K. O'Connor and is happening on Sunday March 8th.

Producing this episode was a massive learning experience. As I've mentioned in passing in other posts, I'm now working solely on creative work after almost a decade of writing and podcasting while employed full-time.

I'm still learning a lot about the technical aspects of recording and editing video, so I ventured into the city with a minimalist videographer setup: an iPhone, a tripod, a couple DJI Mics, an external drive, and the Blackmagic iPhone app. The resulting video file was about 185 gigs of raw footage, which was too large for my go-to editing software, Descript, to handle—which drove me into the arms of the Adobe Creative Suite.

Applying LUTs and tweaking audio within Premiere Pro were all novel experiences for me. I'll be working hard to learn more about filming and editing these videos in the future, and welcome any constructive comments for those who've gone through similar journeys or who have feedback about how the end result looks and sounds.