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No Small Endeavor with Lee C. Camp

The Subtext: America Reads the Bible

No Small Endeavor with Lee C. Camp

Lee Camp

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 555 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

What happens when the Bible becomes a stage prop for national identity instead of a text that interrogates it? This episode explores “America Reads the Bible,” a high-profile event where political leaders, actors, and influencers recited Scripture from the nation’s capital, and, drawing on Bonhoeffer’s warning about reading the Bible for ourselves instead of against ourselves, Savannah and Lee examine how the same text is used to fuel both nationalism and its critique, alongside debates like Tennessee’s Ten Commandments bill. Things we mentioned in this episode: Endurance by Alfred Lansing The Wright Brothers by David McCullough Flight of Passage: A Memoir by Rinker Buck The Congruent Life by C.E. Jarnagin Running Point on Netflix Slow Horses on Apple TV Eboo Patel on No Small Endeavor AJ Levine on No Small Endeavor Live Follow The Subtext: Instagram | Threads | X | YouTube | TikTok Follow Lee: Instagram | Twitter | Lee's Newsletter Follow Savannah: Instagram | Substack Join our Email List: nosmallendeavor.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Savannah, welcome to your show.

0:03.2

Thanks, Lee.

0:03.9

Welcome to our show.

0:06.8

You recently did a half marathon.

0:10.4

Yes, I did do a half marathon.

0:12.8

And the fact that I'm even crossing my legs right now without any pain is good news.

0:18.0

Yeah, congratulations.

0:19.8

Lee, my legs were so tired that the next day when i got up from bed i like was

0:26.9

waddling around the house sounds like you yeah it was so bad yeah well that's pretty great though

0:34.6

yeah good for you 13.1 miles down. 13.1.

0:38.1

And I'm planning on doing it again this year. Excellent. It's never too late.

0:41.2

Should you want to jump in? Yeah, no, thank you. A subtext half marathon.

0:45.6

Well, maybe why don't you just run a whole marathon and we'll say that was 26.2 for both of us.

0:52.5

I'll do 13.1 for myself and 13.1 for you. I love that.

0:56.7

Any major achievements you want to talk about lately? I don't really have any major achievements.

1:01.9

Any books you're into or reading? We'll settle for that. I'm kind of on a kick of reading,

1:06.6

kind of adventure, explorer kinds of things. Like your endurance book?

1:11.7

I read endurance.

1:15.2

Then I read David McCull's book about the Wright Brothers, I think I mentioned.

1:20.1

And now currently I'm reading Buck Rinker's book.

1:21.5

Yes.

1:26.5

And it's called Flight of Passage, a Memoir.

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