Readings
For a look at some of the groups and thinkers who have influenced the development of Compass, see the links below.
Select Readings
Recommended Books
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- Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- How Should We Then Live? by Francis Shaeffer
- Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics by Michael Rabiger
- The War of Art Steven Pressfield
- Story by Robert McKee
- The Habit of Being by Flannery O’Connor
- Mystery and Manners by Flannery O’Connor
- Theo-Drama: Prolegomena by Hans Urs von Balthasar
- The Mind of the Maker by Dorothy Sayers
Recommended Articles
- A World Split Apart by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Awakening the Moral Imagination by Vigen Guroian
- The Responsibility of the Artist by Jacques Maritain
- Art and Scholasticism by Jacques Maritain
- Letter of His Holiness Pope John Paul II to Artists
- Rik Swartzwelder on Film
- The Decline and Renewal of Christian Art by Michael D. O’Brien
- Historical Imagination and the Renewal of Culture by Michael D. O’Brien
- Redemptor Hominis by Pope John Paul II
- Fire in Our Darkness: The Artist as Minister and Prophet by Michael D. O’Brien
- The Beauty and Truth of Christ by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
- The Image Culture by Christian Rosen
