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Your Catholic Culture Is Just a Sticker on the Same Old Life w/ Joel Trumbo

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Joel Trumbo spent ten months a year overseas doing embassy security work before he took a teaching job that barely covered his mortgage and turned a childhood obsession with illuminated manuscripts into a business. In this conversation with Jason Craig, Joel walks through building Tamburn Manor—the hand-painted books, the cabins his high school sons live in, the forest school on his property—and makes the case that a man's real power sits inside his own household, not out in the political realm.

In This Episode, We Cover:

  • Why truth started Joel's move toward the Church but beauty is what kept him there
  • Sitting in on his father's Old English class at ten and deciding Beowulf should be illuminated
  • The two Adamic archetypes—the gardener who sets conditions and the craftsman who makes—and what each asks of a father
  • Building cabins for his high school sons, and the senior project that would put a half acre in each boy's name
  • The tiny house on a trailer, five kids, and the teepee his wife vetoed

Resources Mentioned

Chapters

  • 00:00: Introduction
  • 02:07: Converted by Beauty
  • 08:13: Craftsmanship as Stepping Into the Arena
  • 13:22: The Tiny House on a Trailer
  • 16:51: The Teaching Job, the Pay Cut, and the Side Business
  • 23:14: Illuminating Beowulf at Ten Years Old
  • 29:24: Building Catholic Culture vs. Branding It
  • 38:27: Tamburn Manor and the Two Adamic Archetypes
  • 46:03: A Homestead Across Generations
  • 53:58: The One Craft Every Man Should Try

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Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios.

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