The Subtext: Ask Us Anything

No Small Endeavor with Lee C. Camp

Lee Camp

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 555 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

You asked, we answered. From how Savannah and Lee became friends to whether Jesus is God (no big deal), this episode covers the questions YOU asked. We get into faith and doubt, how to stay hopeful when the world feels chaotic, what it looks like to do ministry well right now, and the books that have shaped us most spiritually. Things we mentioned in this episode: Mere Christianity by CS Lewis New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton Markings by Dag Hammarskjöld The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence The Politics of Jesus by John Howard Yoder In Good Company: The Church as Polis by Stanley Hauerwas Bonus: Stanley Hauerwas on No Small Endeavor Brother to a Dragonfly by Will D. Campbell Who Will Be A Witness byDrew G.I. Hart The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone Acts: A Theological Commentary on the Bible by Willie James Jennings Emilie Maureen Townes books A More Christlike Word by Bradley Jersak Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God by Brian Zahnd Telling Secrets by Frederick Buechner Mighty Poplar Stephen Wilson Jr. The Human Cost of AI Part 1 - No Small Endeavor The Human Cost of AI Part 2 - No Small Endeavor The Friendship Recession - The Subtext Your Favorite Musician Isn't Real - The Subtext How the Story Ends by Savannah Locke 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	Hi, Lee, welcome to our show.
0:02.3	Hello, Savannah.
0:03.7	Welcome to our show.
0:06.7	Lee, do you have any news from your world at all that's happening at the moment?
0:10.7	News from my world.
0:12.3	I have just finished 27 years as a professor.
0:17.6	Huge.
0:18.2	Yeah.
0:18.8	Okay.
0:19.1	And how does that feel?
0:24.3	It feels lots of things. I feel lots of things about it.
0:36.1	I've been focusing, especially as, uh, this past weekend as I did the most of the work of moving out of my office and moving all my books into storage because I have too many books in my house already.
0:39.7	Um, and being reminded of people I've learned from, being reminded of artifacts from students. And I had a rich, rich,
0:47.8	27 years of teaching. And I'm so thankful I got to do it. And it was one of the greatest gifts
0:53.2	of God to me in my life.
0:55.7	What was an artifact from a student that you can think of that stood out to you?
1:04.3	One that I've had stuck on a bulletin board for a long time was a student I had years ago
1:10.1	who read Jesus enough that he decided
1:14.0	he needed to file as a conscientious objector. And so I have kept his conscientious objector form
1:21.5	there on that bulletin board to remind me of the seriousness with which we must take Jesus or
1:27.0	we are invited to take Jesus.
1:29.9	And so, yeah.
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