No Small Endeavor with Lee C. Camp
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No Small Endeavor with Lee C. Camp
What does it really mean to live a good life—in our politics, our faith, our work, and our relationships? On No Small Endeavor with Lee C. Camp, we explore the ideas, practices, and public debates that shape human flourishing today. Each week you’ll hear thought-provoking conversations with bestsel...
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262: Unabridged Interview: Linley Dixon
This is our unabridged interview with Linley Dixon.
What does it mean to live a good life in a world increasingly disconnec...
Introducing: Artificial Intimacy from CBC’s Understood
NSE Present CBC's Understood.
What happens when a human becomes intimately enmeshed with a chatbot? From people who’ve married their bots...
The Subtext: The Pitt: What We Get Wrong About Addiction with Erin Calipari
Dr. Erin Calipari thinks we're getting a lot wrong about addiction, so she and her lab are working to change that by conducting research that could sa...
262: Linley Dixon: A Good Life Grows in Healthy Soil
What does it mean to live a good life in a world increasingly disconnected from the land that sustains it?
Before Linley Dixon became c...
261: Unabridged Interview: Tish Harrison Warren
This is our unabridged interview with Tish Harrison Warren.
What if burnout isn’t failure, but an invitation to become mor...
The Subtext: America Reads the Bible
What happens when the Bible becomes a stage prop for national identity instead of a text that interrogates it?
This episode explores “Ame...
261: Tish Harrison Warren: Your Burnout May Be An Invitation to a Meaningful Life
What if burnout isn’t failure, but an invitation to become more fully human?
Back in 2023, Anglican priest and author Tish Harrison Warr...
260: Unabridged Interview: Nicholas Ma
This is our unabridged interview with Nicholas Ma.
What if the goal of disagreement isn’t to win, but to stay in relationsh...
The Subtext: Noah Kahan's New Record Will Make You Go to Therapy Again
Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide is a brutally honest soundtrack to growing up, drifting away, and figuring out how to make peace with the place you come...
260: Nicholas Ma: What to Do With the People You Love But Don’t Agree With
What if the goal of disagreement isn’t to win, but to stay in relationship?
After producing the smash hit documentary “Won’t You Be My Ne...
259: Unabridged Interview: Kristin T. Lee
This is our unabridged interview with Kristin T. Lee.
What happens when we question the faith that formed us?
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The Subtext: Netflix is Boring Because of Our Short Atten—
Are our shrinking attention spans rewriting the rules of storytelling?
This week on The Subtext, we dig into the claim that streaming pla...
259: Kristin T. Lee: An Immigrant Daughter’s Reckoning with Faith and Identity
What happens when we question the faith that formed us?
Dr. Kristin T. Lee, physician and author of We Mend with Gold: An Immigrant Daugh...
258: Unabridged Interview: Shankar Vedantam
This is our unabridged interview with Shankar Vedantam.
We all like to believe that we live our lives rationally, deliberat...
The Subtext: God Had a Big Week in Pop Culture
From a Gen Z grunge pop artist’s critique of Bible interpretation to politics to the Artemis II mission, God had a big week in pop culture.
258: Shankar Vedantam: Hidden Brain (Best of NSE)
We all like to believe that we live our lives rationally, deliberately, and consciously. But what if our conscious decision-making is just the tip of...
257: Unabridged Interview: Rosalind Picard
This is our unabridged interview with Rosalind Picard.
What if the technologies we build to serve us begin to quietly shape...
The Subtext: Should the Church Have Reputation Managers?
What happens when a church starts thinking like a brand, and hires people to protect its image?
In this episode, we explore the rise of r...
257: The Human Cost of AI: What Is It All For?
We’re building smarter, faster tools every day, but are they helping us live better lives or just accelerating us in the wrong direction?
...
256: Unabridged Interview: Josh Brake
This is our unabridged interview with Josh Brake.
What if the tools shaping our future are also reshaping our humanity?
The Subtext: Everyone Hates Poetry
Lee and Savannah welcome a guest on this week’s episode to discuss why everyone hates poetry! In the hot seat is professor and poet Donovan McAbee, wh...
256: The Human Cost of AI: Money, Sex, and Tools
What if the greatest danger of AI isn’t that it becomes human, but that it reshapes what it means to be one?
In part one of this series,...
255: Unabridged Interview: Matt Lee
This is our unabridged interview with Matt Lee.
What if flourishing isn’t something you achieve, but something you share?
The Subtext: Is Social Media a Calling?
Is being an influencer on social media a calling? Can public-facing work align with a life of service? In this episode, Savannah and Lee unpack a vira...
255: Matt Lee: Why You Can't Flourish Alone
What if flourishing isn’t something you achieve, but something you share?
Sociologist and human flourishing scholar Matthew T. Lee reflec...
254: Unabridged Interview: Laurie Santos
This is our unabridged interview with Laurie Santos.
Many of us spend years chasing the things we believe will make us hap...
The Subtext: WAR! Part TWO!
Back by popular demand! Class is back in session this week as Lee and Savannah walk through Dispensationalism for Dummies, Christian Nationalism, and...
254: Laurie Santos: The Science of Happiness (and How We Get It Wrong)
Many of us spend years chasing the things we believe will make us happy, success, recognition, the next promotion, the perfect relationship, only to d...
253: Unabridged Interview: Sonja Lyubomirsky
This is our unabridged interview with Sonja Lyubomirsky.
What if the secret to happiness isn’t success, status, or even po...
The Subtext: Multi-Level Marketing
Let’s talk about the billion-dollar industry that turns friendship into a sales funnel, and women into its favorite target.
They show up...
253: Sonja Lyubomirsky: How To Actually Feel Loved
What if the secret to happiness isn’t success, status, or even positive thinking, but the simple act of letting yourself be known?
Psych...
252: Unabridged Interview: Ronald Rolheiser
This is our unabridged interview with Ronald Rolheiser.
What if the final chapter of your life could become your greatest...
The Subtext: WAR! What Is It Good For?
What happens when dispensational theology or Christian nationalism directly informs foreign policy without critical reflection or moral accountability...
252: Ronald Rolheiser: How to Grow Old Without Growing Bitter
What if the final chapter of your life could become your greatest gift?
In this deeply wise conversation, Father Ronald Rolheiser joins...
251: Unabridged Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson
This is our unabridged interview with Kim Stanley Robinson.
Do you feel the weight of climate dread—and wonder whether hop...
The Subtext: When did U2 Get So Political?
With their new EP Days of Ash, U2 turns up the volume on grief, protest, and hope. What exactly are they trying to say?
This week on The...
251: Kim Stanley Robinson: A Novelist Imagines a Livable Future
Do you feel the weight of climate dread—and wonder whether hope is still intellectually honest?
Acclaimed science fiction writer Kim Sta...
250: Unabridged Interview: Paul Rosolie
This is our unabridged interview with Paul Rosolie.
He’s been dragged through the Amazon on the back of a giant anaconda,...
The Subtext: America’s Next Top Model
What does it actually look like to take responsibility when you’ve shaped a culture that harmed people? Is saying “I’m sorry” enough?
Thi...
250: Paul Rosolie: Riding Anacondas and Saving the Amazon
He’s been dragged through the Amazon on the back of a giant anaconda, stood in seventy-foot flames trying to save burning animals, and slept on jungle...