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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- NSE Generic Broadcast Promo with space for Station ID:30 (Feb_2024_Generic_NSE_Promo.mp2)
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Are robots going to destroy humanity? In this episode, Meghan O’Gieblyn discusses Artificial Intelligence (AI) in great detail, and lays out what s...
- Added: Aug 30, 2024
- Length: 53:59
Can environmental activism be done with joy? The bigness of it all can be overwhelming and paralyzing. But what if there was another way for you to...
- Added: Aug 30, 2024
- Length: 53:58
What if you’re wrong about what it means to be happy? In this episode, Edith Hall offers an ancient definition of happiness from Aristotle that mig...
- Added: Aug 20, 2024
- Length: 54:01
In August of 2019, Cyntoia Brown Long was released from the Tennessee Prison for Women, 13 years after she had been sentenced to life without parol...
- Added: Aug 13, 2024
- Length: 54:00
How are the world’s poor and oppressed affected by inequity in healthcare systems? In this episode, Dr. Quincy Byrdsong discusses how such cases as...
- Added: Aug 02, 2024
- Length: 54:00
In the 1990s, Jerry Mitchell started working on a handful of closed murder cases from the Civil Rights Era. In this episode, he tells some of the m...
- Added: Aug 08, 2024
- Length: 54:01
What if you knew you had one year left to live? With just 365 days left on earth, how would you spend them?
After a terminal cancer diagnosis, ho...
- Added: Aug 07, 2024
- Length: 53:59
For 50% of our lives, we are not paying attention to what we’re doing. Our work, mental health, and relationships suffer because of it. But what if...
- Added: Jul 30, 2024
- Length: 54:01
“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
