What does it mean to live a good life? What is true happiness? What are the habits, practices, and dispositions that facilitate human flourishing?

On No Small Endeavor, you'll hear from best-selling authors, scientists, artists, psychologists and theologians —courageous, impassioned people taking seriously the question of how to live a good life.

Striving for a good life is No Small Endeavor, and we’re here with you on the road.

I am an Alabamian by birth, and after leaving home, I completed an undergraduate degree in Computer Science at Lipscomb University (B.A., 1989) in Nashville, Tennessee, where I fell in love with the wonderful woman named Laura who became my wife. Eventually, we made our way to the mid-west and made a home in South Bend, Indiana where I did graduate studies at Notre Dame in Moral Theology / Christian Ethics (M.A., Ph.D., 1999).

I've been teaching full-time at Lipscomb University since 1999, a community I love and for which I am deeply grateful, full of many dear friends and outstanding colleagues.

I'm grateful for the privilege of getting to teach, write, produce, and speak about things that matter: like what it means to be a human being; what sorts of habits and ways of life lead to flourishing, individually and communally; and what it might look like to live in a way that transcends various hostilities and partisanships, all while still caring and talking a great deal about things like justice and mercy and truth-telling. And trying to do it all with a sense of humor and kindness and gentleness. 

Grateful to have you join us in this journey,