No Small Endeavor with Lee C. Camp

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What does it really mean to live a good life—in our politics, our faith, our work, and our relationships?

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January 30, 2026245: Unabridged Interview: Rumman Chowdhury
This is our unabridged interview with Rumman Chowdhury.

What if the greatest danger of artificial intelligence isn’t what it might do someday, but the power it already wields today?
Social scientist and AI ethics leader Dr. Rumman Chowdhury joins Lee C. Camp to challenge popular narratives about artificial intelligence, arguing that the real story is not superintelligence or apocalypse, but power, incentives, and responsibility. Drawing on her work at Twitter and her nonprofit Humane Intelligence, Chowdhury explores how systems of surveillance, corporate profit, and moral outsourcing shape our technological future and what it will take to build AI that serves authentic human flourishing.
Key Ideas:
Learn to Ask “Who Benefits?”Behind every AI system are incentive structures and power arrangements within for-profit companies. Cultivating the habit of asking who gains and who pays the cost helps us see technology more truthfully.

Refuse to Blame the MachineCalling harm “the AI’s fault” allows humans and institutions to evade responsibility, so ethical clarity begins by keeping people accountable.

Pay Attention to What’s Already HereFears about future AI apocalypse distract us from the real effects already shaping culture, labor, democracy, and community right now.

Be Wary of Convenience That Watches YouSurveillance almost always arrives disguised as safety or ease, but recognizing how data collection concentrates power helps us protect human dignity and freedom.
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⁠⁠Show Notes, Resources and Transcript⁠⁠ for abridged episode with Rumman Chowdhury

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1h 8min
January 28, 2026 The Subtext: Celebrities Should Stay in Their Lane
Should celebrities “stay in their lane” when it comes to political or moral matters? Who gets to speak in public, and why do we only object when it makes us uncomfortable?
When Mark Ruffalo spoke out at the Golden Globes about American politics, some applauded his honesty while others told him to “stay in his lane.” In this episode, Savannah and Lee unpack why celebrity activism is celebrated by some and condemned by others, exposing the double standards around fame, faith, politics, and who we think is allowed to speak in public.

Things we mentioned in this episode:
⁠Down There by the Train⁠ by Tom Waits
⁠Come On Up To The House⁠ by Tom Waits
⁠Tehran⁠ on Apple TV
⁠Come and Welcome to Jesus Christ by John Bunyan⁠
⁠The One On The Right Is On The Left Live at the Ryman Auditorium⁠ by Johnny Cash

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51min
January 26, 2026245: Rumman Chowdhury: Why the Real AI Crisis Is Moral, Not Technical
What if the greatest danger of artificial intelligence isn’t what it might do someday, but the power it already wields today?
Social scientist and AI ethics leader Dr. Rumman Chowdhury joins Lee C. Camp to challenge popular narratives about artificial intelligence, arguing that the real story is not superintelligence or apocalypse, but power, incentives, and responsibility. Drawing on her work at Twitter and her nonprofit ⁠Humane Intelligence⁠, Chowdhury explores how systems of surveillance, corporate profit, and moral outsourcing shape our technological future and what it will take to build AI that serves authentic human flourishing.
Key Ideas:
Learn to Ask “Who Benefits?”Behind every AI system are incentive structures and power arrangements within for-profit companies. Cultivating the habit of asking who gains and who pays the cost helps us see technology more truthfully.

Refuse to Blame the MachineCalling harm “the AI’s fault” allows humans and institutions to evade responsibility, so ethical clarity begins by keeping people accountable.

Pay Attention to What’s Already HereFears about future AI apocalypse distract us from the real effects already shaping culture, labor, democracy, and community right now.

Be Wary of Convenience That Watches YouSurveillance almost always arrives disguised as safety or ease, but recognizing how data collection concentrates power helps us protect human dignity and freedom.
⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠
⁠⁠⁠Show Notes, Resources and Transcript⁠⁠ for abridged episode with Rumman Chowdhury⁠

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53min
January 23, 2026 246: Unabridged Interview: Amishi Jha
This is our unabridged interview with Amishi Jha.

Is it possible that for half of our waking life, we are not paying attention to what we’re doing?
In today’s fast-paced, technology-driven world, many of us are coming to terms with the fact that our capacity for paying attention is laughably weak. Our work, mental health, and relationships suffer because of it. But what if there was a tried-and-true way to change this, something like “push-ups for your brain?”
Neuroscientist Amishi Jha has dedicated her career to studying this question, and the results are in. In this episode, she describes the practice of mindfulness meditation - why it can work for everyone (not just the spiritual folks), and how it only takes 12 minutes each day to reach one’s “Peak Mind.”

⁠⁠⁠ Show Notes, Resources and Transcript⁠⁠ for abridged episode with Amishi Jha⁠⁠⁠

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1h 12min
January 21, 2026 The Subtext: If You’re Not Terrified, You’re Not Paying Attention
When fear becomes the price of being “informed,” how do we tell the difference between paying attention and being emotionally hijacked?
After a trio of viral Threads posts seem to declare that terror is the only appropriate response to our moment, we dig into how social media turns unprocessed fear into a public spectacle, and why outrage and panic are increasingly treated as signs of intelligence or moral seriousness. Drawing on mental health research, media studies, and theology, we ask whether constant distress actually helps us engage the world more faithfully or quietly numbs our capacity for compassion and action.

Things we mentioned in this episode:
Books + Articles:
⁠We Survived the Night by Julian Brave NoiseCat⁠
⁠Against the Machine by Paul Kingsnorth⁠
⁠The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson⁠
⁠A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson⁠
⁠Night by Elie Wiesel⁠
⁠A Testament of Devotion by Thomas Kelly⁠
⁠Media and compassion after digital war: Why digital media haven't transformed responses to human suffering in contemporary conflict by Andrew Hoskins⁠
⁠We Have Never Been Woke by Musa al-Gharbi⁠

Shows + Movies:
⁠Run Away⁠ on Netflix
⁠Stranger Things⁠ on Netflix
⁠The Prince of Egypt⁠

Songs + Podcasts:
⁠If You Believe by Rachael Lampa (A Walk to Remember Soundtrack)⁠
⁠Dare You To Move by Switchfoot (A Walk to Remember Soundtrack)⁠
⁠Musa al-Gharbi interview on No Small Endeavor⁠
⁠Munther Isaac interview on No Small Endeavor⁠

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44min
January 19, 2026 246: Amishi Jha: Push-ups for Your Brain (Best of NSE)
Is it possible that for half of our waking life, we are not paying attention to what we’re doing?
In today’s fast-paced, technology-driven world, many of us are coming to terms with the fact that our capacity for paying attention is laughably weak. Our work, mental health, and relationships suffer because of it. But what if there was a tried-and-true way to change this, something like “push-ups for your brain?”
Neuroscientist Amishi Jha has dedicated her career to studying this question, and the results are in. In this episode, she describes the practice of mindfulness meditation - why it can work for everyone (not just the spiritual folks), and how it only takes 12 minutes each day to reach one’s “Peak Mind.”

⁠⁠⁠⁠ Show Notes, Resources and Transcript⁠⁠ for abridged episode with Amishi Jha⁠⁠⁠⁠

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52min
January 16, 2026244: Unabridged Interview: Malcolm Gladwell
This is our unabridged interview with Malcolm Gladwell.

What causes suffering in our society? Intentional evil? Or something less apparent and possibly more unsettling—indifference?
In this conversation, master storyteller Malcolm Gladwell and host Lee C. Camp explore the moral power of storytelling in light of Gladwell’s latest Revisionist History series, ⁠⁠The Alabama Murders⁠⁠. What begins as a devastating true crime account of a 1988 murder in northwestern Alabama unfolds into something far more unsettling: a decades-long moral failure cascade marked not by villainy alone, but by indifference.
Malcolm corresponded and interviewed Lee for the series to understand the religious and cultural context of the narrative. Together, they examine how stories can awaken our capacity to see, care, and imagine a different world.

Key Ideas:
How Story Can Awaken Moral Vision Stories do moral work by helping us see what we have learned to accept as normal—and revealing it instead as a distortion.

Good Stories Betray Expectations Well Powerful stories disrupt our predictions about the world, forcing us to imagine alternative possibilities for justice and goodness.

Take Indifference Seriously Drawing on the insight that “sin is often a failure to bother to care”, Gladwell argues that indifference may be the defining moral danger of modern life.

Honor Beauty Without Blindness Truthful storytelling can hold together love for communities and traditions while honestly naming the harm they sometimes produce.

Forgiveness Should Have an Action Is forgiveness without action actually forgiveness?
⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Show Notes, Resources and Transcript⁠⁠ for abridged episode with Malcolm Gladwell⁠⁠

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1h 10min
January 14, 2026 The Subtext: Secret Episode of Stranger Things
What do Stranger Things conspiracy theories, failed prophecies, and religious history have in common? A deep human struggle to face disappointment without rewriting reality.
After the finale, many Stranger Things fans convinced themselves a secret ninth episode was hiding in plain sight. In this episode, Lee and Savannah use “Conformity Gate” as a surprisingly rich case study in how humans respond to disappointment and unmet expectations. From the Great Disappointment of 1844 to classic research on cognitive dissonance, we explore why people so often reinterpret failure instead of accepting it.

Things we mentioned in this episode:
⁠ When Prophecy Fails by Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter⁠

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44min
January 12, 2026244: Malcolm Gladwell: What a True Crime Reveals About the Sin of Indifference
What causes suffering in our society? Intentional evil? Or something less apparent and possibly more unsettling—indifference?
In this conversation, master storyteller Malcolm Gladwell and host Lee C. Camp explore the moral power of storytelling in light of Gladwell’s latest Revisionist History series, The Alabama Murders. What begins as a devastating true crime account of a 1988 murder in northwestern Alabama unfolds into something far more unsettling: a decades-long moral failure cascade marked not by villainy alone, but by indifference.
Malcolm corresponded and interviewed Lee for the series to understand the religious and cultural context of the narrative. Together, they examine how stories can awaken our capacity to see, care, and imagine a different world.

Key Ideas:
How Story Can Awaken Moral Vision Stories do moral work by helping us see what we have learned to accept as normal—and revealing it instead as a distortion.

Good Stories Betray Expectations Well Powerful stories disrupt our predictions about the world, forcing us to imagine alternative possibilities for justice and goodness.

Take Indifference Seriously Drawing on the insight that “sin is often a failure to bother to care”, Gladwell argues that indifference may be the defining moral danger of modern life.

Honor Beauty Without Blindness Truthful storytelling can hold together love for communities and traditions while honestly naming the harm they sometimes produce.

Forgiveness Should Have an Action Is forgiveness without action actually forgiveness?
⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Show Notes, Resources and Transcript⁠⁠ for abridged episode with Malcolm Gladwell

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January 09, 2026243: Unabridged Interview: Carlos Whittaker
This is our unabridged interview with Carlos Whittaker.

Carlos Whittaker was spending the equivalent of 100 full days a year on his phone.
You might not be far behind.
Carlos—an author and social media influencer who has raised millions for charity online—realized he was scrolling his life away. So he tried something drastic. In his book ⁠Reconnected: How 7 Screen-Free Weeks with Monks and Amish Farmers Helped Me Recover the Lost Art of Being Human⁠, he recounts the experiment that changed everything: seven weeks completely unplugged.
The results were startling. According to before-and-after brain scans and cognitive testing from Dr. Daniel Amen, Carlos’ cognitive performance shot from the 50th percentile to the 99th, and his cerebellum showed the equivalent of five years of healing. But the deeper transformation happened in the quiet space that screens had been drowning out.
He relearned how to wonder—at a monk’s prompting to “behold,” he climbed a mountain, then later found himself lying on the ground studying a single roly-poly. He picked up life-altering questions from Amish communities about when to embrace or reject new technology. He rediscovered the simple joy of savoring a cup of coffee.
If you feel fogged, distracted, or numb from living through a screen, this episode might be the reset you need.

Key Ideas
How do you decide whether to adopt new technology? The Amish ask one clarifying question: “Will this bring us closer together or drive us further apart?”

When was the last time you wondered about anything? With answers always seconds away, we’ve lost the mental and spiritual muscle of curiosity—along with the connection and clarity it creates.

Tech isn’t neutral. It’s shaping our brains. After seven screen-free weeks, Carlos’ memory score jumped from the 50th to the 99th percentile, and his cerebellum showed dramatic healing.
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