Crown & Compass
The Walk is long.
No man takes it alone.
A small group of Christian men who read a book together
and talk honestly about their lives. Free. No ranks. No performance.
What This Is
At first encounter, Crown and Compass is a small group of Christian men who read a book together and talk honestly about their lives. That's it. No fees, no ranks, no performance. A man shows up on a Saturday morning, hears some other men speak plainly about what's hard and what they're grateful for, and realizes other men carry the same weight. That is the first thing CC gives him.
What it becomes over time is harder to name and more important. It becomes the community that makes the Walk possible. A man doesn't grow in isolation. He grows when other men are watching, asking, and walking alongside. Crown and Compass is the structure that holds that.
If a man shows up and stays, here is what CC offers: he will be known by name by men who are glad he's there. He will have a place to say the true thing without managing how it lands. He will see other men in the middle of the same struggle, which will do more for him than any podcast or self-help book. This is not a guarantee of outcomes. It is a guarantee of accompaniment. We go together. That's the promise.
Who It's For
Three kinds of men find their way here.
The man who built something but feels it's not enough.
He has a job, maybe a family, maybe a faith he grew up with but hasn't touched in years. He's competent. He's responsible. And there's a low-grade sense that something is missing. Most of his friendships are transactional.
The man who is in over his head.
His marriage is strained, or his business is struggling, or his health is a mess he keeps meaning to address. He's tired of performing okay. He wants someone to ask the real question and actually want the real answer.
The man who is doing well and knows he can't sustain it alone.
He's read the books, he goes to church, he's done some therapy. He knows the territory. What he needs is men doing the same work. Men who will go with him. Iron sharpens iron. He's looking for the iron.
How It Works
Four things, all connected.
Chapters
4–8 Brothers who read the current book together and meet to discuss it. Weekly, biweekly, or as the group can sustain. The core unit of Crown and Compass.
Guides
The Guide is not the teacher or the expert. He's the man who prepared, who holds the room, who keeps the conversation honest. Any Brother can Guide. The role rotates.
The Round
Closes every meeting. Three moves: the check-in (where are you, really?), The Ask, and The Close. The Round is where the real work happens.
The Compass
CC's long-arc curriculum: four pillars — Body, Being, Balance, Business. A map, not a syllabus. The direction for the Walk.
The Compass
Four pillars. One long walk.
The Compass is not a self-help program. It is a map. A man picks it up knowing roughly where he stands and uses it to walk.
I started Crown and Compass because I needed it. Not because I had answers — because I was tired of carrying things alone.
There's something that happens when a man says the true thing in a room of men who are glad he's there. I've seen it. It changes a man slowly, over time. Not all at once. The Walk is long. But something moves.
What we're building is simple: a place where men can be honest with each other and with God, around a book, every week, for as long as it takes. That's it. That's enough.
— Brian, Founder
Crown and Compass is free.
It has always been free.
Free because the Gospel is free. Free because the best communities have never charged for belonging. If you want to walk, reach out.
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