Building The Cathedral | Craig Cunningham on Faith, Fables & Following a Dream

<p>Join us as we welcome back our very first return guest, author <b>Craig Cunningham</b>, to talk about his new fable, <i>The Cathedral</i>.</p><p></p><p>Craig shares the origin of the story—a years-old vision of building an actual cathedral in the West Texas desert—and how that idea eventually merged with his own journey as a writer into the tale of Adeo, a boy called to build a cathedral of his own.</p><p></p><p>Craig walks us through writing the first draft in three uninterrupted days in Terlingua, Texas, how he finds the voice for every one of his stories, and the four mentors who guide Adeo across his life: the traveler, the architect, the magician, and the angel. The conversation lands on the book's central twist...the cathedral was never the building. It was always being built in him.</p><p></p><p>Listen to the full episode for:</p><p>Craig's story of finding his novel's voice through a single opening line, and why that line changes everything for him creatively.</p><p>A rich discussion on why self-promotion feels impossible for so many creatives, and why doing it anyway matters.</p><p>Lauren and Steven's own stories of building something (a coffee shop, a music career) that shaped them more than the outcome ever could.</p><p></p><p>Resources from the show:</p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://a.co/d/02zI7Xli" target="_blank">The Cathedral</a></p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZtOuv8sglc" target="_blank">Three Days In Terlingua</a></p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.craigscunningham.com/" target="_blank">Craig's Website</a></p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://kentstudio.substack.com/s/one-night-journal" target="_blank">One Night In A Thousand Years Film Journal</a></p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/191455325X?ref_=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_DVC6WCJ1W7NHRXST8Q55&amp;bestFormat=true" target="_blank">The Cave, The Road, The Table, and The Fire</a></p><p></p><p>Kurt Vonnegut On Buying An Envelope:</p><h1>(talking about when he tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope)</h1><h1>Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And, see some