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These are the short articles from the weekly Mount Hope Lutheran School Newsletter. Topics include poems, paintings, great literary works, and the philosophy of classical education. You can browse through past articles here on the website, and you can subscribe to receive new ones in your inbox using the form on this page.

Midas and the Golden Touch

“He wishes to flee riches and hates that which he had just asked.” It is part of our fallen human nature to see something harmful as good.

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Pastor Andrew Richard December 16, 2024

Biblical Truth vs. Pagan Fiction

Some myths echo biblical narratives. It’s not surprising that without God’s preservation of the true accounts, man’s fallen memory would fail to retell these stories correctly.

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Miss Hannah Engwall December 9, 2024

The Math of Counting

Ever since the Greeks, mathematicians interested in the nature of the world have invented new ways to speak of arithmetical ideas.

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Mr. Nathanael Hahn November 18, 2024

Orpheus in the Underworld

On the Last Day there will be a bodily resurrection. This is one of the most striking of Jesus’ teachings when compared with the prevailing beliefs in the Greco-Roman world.

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Pastor Andrew Richard November 11, 2024

Cranach’s Wittenberg Altarpiece

This painting was first displayed a year after Luther’s death, and those who viewed it saw their own pastors and themselves depicted as receiving God’s Word and Sacraments.

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Miss Hannah Engwall October 29, 2024

Leisure and the Liberal Arts

A man at leisure is happy to be human. He realizes that he isn’t bound to instinct and survival like an animal, but that his gifts of reason and language set him apart as something more.

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Miss Anna Hahn October 21, 2024

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