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