Your Catholic Culture Is Just a Sticker on the Same Old Life w/ Joel Trumbo
Sword&Spade
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 * Fraternus * Tamburn Manor * Illuminated Beowulf Book * Tamburn Bindery * The Arthuriad 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 JOIN 2500+ MEN READING SERIOUS, YET ACCESSIBLE ESSAYS ON VIRTUE, CULTURE, AND LIVING WELL: https://fraternus.org/sword-and-spade/ Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios.