No Small Endeavor
Series produced by No Small Endeavor
Exploring what it means to live a good life.
What does it mean to live a good life? What is true happiness? How do we not just cope, but flourish? No Small Endeavor, formerly known as Tokens Show, examines these questions with host Lee C. Camp, and investigates the inseparable link between a good life and the pressing questions of society, culture, and the common good. You'll hear from best-selling authors, philosophers, scientists, artists, psychologists, theologians and even the occasional politician—courageous, impassioned people taking seriously the question of how to live a good life.
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“I think part of what it means to live in an honest way with a religious tradition is to live with its ragged edges.” In this episode, Rabbi Shai H...
- Added: Jul 22, 2024
- Length: 54:02
Pete Enns and Jared Byas host The Bible for Normal People, a podcast for which is loved by some, lambasted by others. They host honest conversation...
- Added: Jul 15, 2024
- Length: 54:00
Time Magazine has recognized Stanley Hauerwas as the best theologian in America, but you don’t get that title by making everybody happy. He’s a dog...
- Added: Jul 11, 2024
- Length: 54:01
The founding fathers of the United States government are considered to be some of the finest political thinkers the world has ever seen. But centur...
- Added: Jun 04, 2024
- Length: 54:00
After a childhood spent in manipulative therapy, institutional facilities, foster care, and even times of homelessness, Emi Nietfeld got into Harva...
- Added: Jun 26, 2024
- Length: 53:59
Almost half of everything we do every day is a habit, and our habits make us who we are. But are these behaviors, both good and bad, as set in ston...
- Added: Jun 18, 2024
- Length: 54:00
Our Juneteenth Special features three prominent black voices on the issue of race. Fred Gray discusses working as MLK’s lawyer during the Montgomer...
- Added: Jun 12, 2024
- Length: 54:01
“I knew I had a white mother,” says award-winning journalist John Blake. “Her name is Shirley, and her family hates black people… that's all I knew...
- Added: May 28, 2024
- Length: 54:01
How can poetry contribute to living a good life? In this episode, award-winning poet Naomi Shihab Nye offers wisdom for living a good life through ...
- Added: May 15, 2024
- Length: 54:01
Turns out self-esteem isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. In this episode, Kristin Neff describes why self-compassion is a much more effective tool th...
- Added: May 08, 2024
- Length: 54:01
What happens when you get a self-dubbed “yankee Jewish feminist” talking about Jesus? A fascinating conversation leaving folks of all faiths and wo...
- Added: May 01, 2024
- Length: 54:01
What is joy? Is it equatable with happiness, or pleasure, or both? Is it to be found in a career, or a romantic partner, or a religion? And if we w...
- Added: Apr 26, 2024
- Length: 54:01
What is it like to be an Asian American? In light of AAPI month, we present two Asian-American stories of grief and hope. Karen Korematsu tells the...
- Added: Apr 19, 2024
- Length: 54:01
What is the Enneagram, and how can it help us live a good life? What at first glance seems like a Myers-Briggs-esque personality test for grouping ...
- Added: Apr 09, 2024
- Length: 54:01
Climate change is the most polarized issue in the United States, beating out abortion, guns, economics, race, and all other hot-button topics. But ...
- Added: Mar 27, 2024
- Length: 54:01
NSEB 000 041124: Pádraig Ó Tuama: A Poet’s Work in Peace and Reconciliation (Best of NSE), 4/11/2024
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What if, to be a peacemaker, one has to stir the waters oneself? What if, to be a theologian, one has to leave questions about God unanswered? What...
- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 54:01
How do you forgive the man who killed your son? Azim Khamisa tells the story of how he forgave the man who killed his only son Tariq, and how the e...
- Added: Apr 02, 2024
- Length: 53:59
“Brief doses of awe help your heart, your immune system, your stress, your reasoning, your relationships,” says psychologist and bestselling author...
- Added: Mar 27, 2024
- Length: 54:00
What do we do with the painful parts of our life story? Philip Yancey seeks to answer that question in his recent memoir “Where the Light Fell.” In...
- Added: Mar 22, 2024
- Length: 54:01
“It just seemed like such a tragedy that we can go through decades and on some level feel like we’re not okay,” says psychologist, author, and teac...
- Added: Feb 29, 2024
- Length: 54:01
