Feechies are for real! (Don’t take my word for it – you can read it yourself.)

October 22, 2010

A good friend of ours just released his latest novel on the fabulous world of Corenwald, a land he originally introduced in his Wilderking Trilogy. Jonathan Roger’s new novel is called The Charlatan’s Boy and is a prequel to the series. The opening is intriguing: “I don’t remember one thing about the day I was born. [...]

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New Visual Latin Video | A Quick Explanation

October 14, 2010

We just created a new little intro video that shows exactly what Visual Latin does. If you haven’t taken a look at Visual Latin yet, this is a quick (and funny) way to do so. Hope you enjoy it!

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Seeking Someone Who Likes to Sell

October 7, 2010

We’re on the lookout for someone who really enjoys selling. Between Modern Parables, Visual Latin, and our own services, we have lots of things to sell to lots of different people. Our ideal person would be familiar with the church and homeschool markets, know something about video, have a bit of marketing creativity, and enjoy [...]

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How do you teach students to worship? | Gregory Wilbur on New College Franklin

September 27, 2010

This is part two of three of our New College Franklin series of short interviews. In this piece, Gregory Wilbur, Dean of the Chapel (and friend of Euclid, among many other impressive attributes) explains the importance of worship to the lives of the students. One of the things I like about Greg’s perspective on worship [...]

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How do you teach students to think? | George Grant on New College Franklin

September 21, 2010

We were asked by our friends at New College Franklin to create three short pieces to explain their unique approach to education. As we talked to them about what they did, three ways of looking at man emerged: Man Thinking, Man Worshiping, and Man Doing. This is the first of the three videos in the [...]

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Greg Wilbur’s Music in The Compass Store: Hymns, Sheet Music & Free Downloads

September 14, 2010

I have loved Greg Wilbur’s music for a long time. He composed the soundtracks for Samaritan and The Widow & Judge in our Modern Parables series. More recently, he published an album of his hymns and songs entitled My Cry Ascends (you can watch a short trailer, too). It’s therefore a privilege for us to to begin [...]

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Foundations of Economics | A Christian View

September 2, 2010

That’s the title of a new book by Dr. Shawn Ritenour of Grove City College that I’ve been reading to prepare for a new curriculum series we’re working on. It has been a fascinating read. Dr. Ritenour follows the Austrian school of economics, but looks at it through the lens of a thorough-going Christian perspective. [...]

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The Visual Latin pre-sale! Buy it now for the crazy low price of $25

August 20, 2010

Today we launched a new Compass Cinema Store and the pre-sale for Visual Latin. We’re offering the first 10 lessons for just $25 through the end of August. If you’re at all interested in the class, I encourage you to go check it out and take advantage of the pre-sale. We think it’s a pretty [...]

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Watch a Latin lesson about boy words and girl words

August 2, 2010

We’re getting close to finishing the first 10 lessons for our new Latin video series called Visual Latin. We’ve broken down the concepts into bite-size pieces to make them easier to digest. For instance, the grammar video lesson above explains the way gender works in Latin; and it’s pretty enjoyable to watch. On our site you [...]

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We’re launching a new self-paced video Latin curriculum in August : Visual Latin

July 16, 2010

I took Latin in high school and really liked it. When my friend Dwane Thomas, who’s been teaching Latin for 15 years, started talking to me about the paucity (from Lat. paucus, ‘few’) of Latin courses on video, I thought it was something worth pursuing. After a few months of work, Visual Latin is the result. [...]

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