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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In this episode, taped in front of a live audience at Nashville’s Sudekum Planetarium under a projection of images from the James Webb Telescope, a...
- Added: Oct 18, 2023
- Length: 54:00
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: Oct 11, 2023
- Length: 54:00
Five weeks before her 16th birthday in 1976, Amy Grant was offered her first record deal. Now all these years later, she is widely recognized as th...
- Added: Oct 04, 2023
- Length: 54:00
For all our modern so-called progress, global happiness levels have been consistently going down. So what does it really take to be happy? Robert W...
- Added: Sep 27, 2023
- Length: 53:59
At age 50, William Paul Young wrote the New York Times best-selling novel “The Shack”. It has sold 25 million copies and was turned into a major mo...
- Added: Sep 20, 2023
- Length: 53:58
What is it like growing up Black in the American South? Esau McCaulley discusses his new memoir “How Far to the Promised Land.” Careful not to gene...
- Added: Sep 14, 2023
- Length: 54:01
Is the US really a “shining city on a hill,” or is the true history much darker? Dr. Eddie Glaude discusses his book “Begin Again: James Baldwin's ...
- Added: Sep 07, 2023
- Length: 53:59
Does religion make you happier? David DeSteno discusses the ways the world’s great religious traditions line up with cutting-edge psychological and...
- Added: Aug 31, 2023
- Length: 53:58
What is it like to be a famous musical duo, on the road all the time, and married with kids? That’s the life of Amanda Sudano and Abner Ramirez, mo...
- Added: Aug 27, 2023
- Length: 53:58
In an age full of life hacks, self-help books, and productivity gurus, many of us only end up busier and more stressed than we were before. What if...
- Added: Aug 16, 2023
- Length: 53:56
A special re-airing of our 2020 interview with Charles Strobel, Catholic priest and founder of Room In The Inn, who died August 6th, 2023, at the a...
- Added: Aug 09, 2023
- Length: 53:59
What is beauty, and what role should it play in our lives? In this episode, Elise asks the question we’re all thinking: are our culture’s beauty st...
- Added: Aug 03, 2023
- Length: 54:00
Does pluralism result in discrimination? Must one choose a political side, either on the Left or the Right? And how can an ordinary life be an exce...
- Added: Jul 27, 2023
- Length: 54:00
What do Olympic athletes, world-class artists, elite academics, and successful business executives have in common? Ivy League psychologist and auth...
- Added: Jul 20, 2023
- Length: 53:58
“Things didn’t come together vocationally for me until I was 50.” Now 84 years old, Parker Palmer tells about his experience seeking and finding vo...
- Added: Jul 12, 2023
- Length: 53:58
Stress is a silent killer. But on some level, it’s an inevitable feature of life in our culture. So might there be a way for us to flourish when st...
- Added: Jul 06, 2023
- Length: 53:57
What does it take to be happy? Gretchen Rubin describes her answer after “The Happiness Project,” a year-long process of trying everything from joi...
- Added: Jun 28, 2023
- Length: 54:58
Bears, beets, Battlestar Galactica… and spirituality? Rainn Wilson is known for playing Dwight Schrute on the hit TV show The Office. But in this e...
- Added: Jun 23, 2023
- Length: 54:57
Why would anybody want to practice Sabbath? Judith Shulevitz discusses her book 'The Sabbath World,' which she wrote a over a decade ago to call at...
Bought by WPLN - Nashville Public Radio
- Added: Jun 14, 2023
- Length: 53:58
- Purchases: 1
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...
Bought by WPLN - Nashville Public Radio
- Added: Jun 07, 2023
- Length: 53:56
- Purchases: 1
