Publishers of the finest literature for homeschooling families. Virtus et Miraculum
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May 5
We made books built to outlast us.
Cloth bound with smyth-sewn bindings, printed in the United States. Twelve children's classics across four box sets, Æsop to Shakespeare.
Chapter House is open for pre-order. Our first limited print run will ship in June.
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Jun 12
Josh will be there!
The table is set. Tomorrow night 30 men sit around this table in Nashville for a conversation on western culture, tradition, education, and more. 🍷
Part dinner party, part philosophical adventure, part pure camaraderie.
Men need this now more than ever, our culture needs this now more than ever.
We have 2 seats still available, visit our website for more information.
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Jun 12
Books are leaving the warehouse now! Make your own unboxing video and we will share it here!
Jun 9
Chapters I and II are shipping now! This is how @hannahcenters reacted when she saw them for the first time.
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Jun 11
The books were lost in transit. We opened the box in Texas with real trepidation.
Then: Glory to God! The paper, the type, the art, the end papers.
They feel important because they are.
Shipping now: virtueandwonder.com/p/chapte…
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Jun 10
The biggest mistake the publishing industry made was reducing books to mere data. A book is more than mere words on the page. It is the feel of the cover, the brightness of the paper, the crispness of the text. The smell!
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Jun 9
Chapters I and II are shipping now! This is how @hannahcenters reacted when she saw them for the first time.
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Jun 9
The child who asks for the same book again is not stalling. He is building the foundation every future book will rest on.
Read it again.
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Chapter House retweeted
“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Jun 8
If you cannot admit you are uneducated, you do not possess the humility to become truly educated.
Can we honestly call someone “educated” if they’ve never read Homer or Shakespeare?
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Jun 8
A child who asks for the same story every night is not being slow. She is building a home inside the words.
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If you are homeschooling or just generally want to pass down an understanding and love of literature to your kids, please do not fall for the lie that Shakespeare (or the KJV Bible, or anything else that is now often called "difficult") is too old or obscure for *you* to grasp. That's how you perpetuate the lie for another generation and deprive your children of important cultural and linguistic grounding.
OP has a solid list of tips for getting to the point where you can enjoy and understand this stuff.
How I first studied Shakespeare so I could actually learn it and understand what he was talking about:
1. I listened to audio versions of the play while following along with the text. Actors provide emotions/tone to help you understand the scene. This also meant I could stop when I needed to so I could look up words or context.
2. In a 3 hour play, I would stop about every 30 minutes and watch a summary or listen to a lecture about that section. Then continue to the next section.
3. Then I would watch a performance (usually on YouTube). Lots of Shakespeare performances on YT for free.
4. Now I can read entire plays or just certain sections, and I enjoy them. I actually know what's going on. I can appreciate the language (without wondering "What the hell does this word mean?")
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My daughter starts kindergarten soon. She told me she is nervous. I asked her why, and she said she doesn’t want to learn to read because she doesn’t want me to stop reading to her. Rest assured, her fears are unfounded, but the fact that she doesn’t want me to stop reading to her has melted my heart.
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Jun 6
Weekend reflection: The homeschool families we admire most do not measure their year by worksheets completed.
They measure it by moments when a child asked one more question instead of moving on.
What was your "one more question" moment this year?
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Jun 5
Hollywood could put out a movie like this every summer and make money hand over fist.
They do not want to.
Jun 5
When Top Gun: Maverick came out in 2022, I remember realizing the entire culture was about to shift.
There was no political preachiness.
No cynical “deconstruction.”
Sincerity without an ounce of “irony poisoning.”
Like a sudden mass-realization of all we had been missing.
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Our biggest mistake this year was doing too much. This is what we are dreaming about for the fall👇 Do less, more intentionally. Preserve precious quiet time too.
Jun 5
We have noticed that June brings a quiet anxiety: The hunt for the perfect curriculum list. And yet the families we know who do not burn out by October are rarely the ones with the best lists. They are the ones who do less, more slowly, with more daylight
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Jun 5
We have noticed that June brings a quiet anxiety: The hunt for the perfect curriculum list. And yet the families we know who do not burn out by October are rarely the ones with the best lists. They are the ones who do less, more slowly, with more daylight
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Jun 4
Even the King James Bible’s most famous adversary concedes the point.
@RichardDawkins says a native English speaker who has never read it is “verging on the barbarian.”
We agree. The KJV gave English 257 everyday phrases, more than Shakespeare.
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