Musings
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.
Multum Non Multa in Music Class
With a balanced concoction of understanding and fun, I think these students will be set up for a lifelong love of great music.
The Glory of Medieval Manuscripts
The students did wonderful work, following in the footsteps of Eadfrith and many unnamed medieval scribes who adorned the Word of God and left the Church some of her greatest works of art.
Acting Out Medieval History
The skills of paraphrasing, summarizing, and concision are key to the rhetorical work we do as well. Writing the plays led to practice in all of these skills.
“Hands-On Science”
One downside to theories is that the world actually doesn’t run on theories; the world doesn’t even run on scientific laws! The world runs according to the hand of God alone.
The Diet of Worms: Vermicomposting in the Kinder Classroom
In watching worms work quietly beneath the surface, students are reminded that much of God’s sustaining work happens slowly and unseen.
For unto Us a Child Is Born
There lies the little body that has since grown, and borne your sins, and crucified them by being crucified. In that little pinky flows the blood, the unique blood, God’s blood that has now redeemed you.
Hatching Chicks
We noted how amazing it is that God designed these chicks to be able to survive hatching from their rigid prisons without assistance.
Misused Matter
Can you picture the things of earth yearning for the coming of Christ? What would they say? What would they lament? What would they look back on fondly? What would they look forward to?
Architecture, Theology, and Cathedrals
Cathedrals are staggering, in magnitude, craftsmanship, and beauty. Medieval Christians committed decades—sometimes over a century—of labor and money into their construction.
Presentation Eloquence
The projects have given so many different opportunities for our class to grow.
Proof and Language
What I intend with proof papers is to get students thinking about math with words again, and therefore help them actually understand the truths they’re dealing with.
What Was the Reformation About?
Through the proclamation of the Gospel of Christ both pride and despair lose their place as we realize that our life is not about our works, but about His.
Having Fun with a History Bowl
The repetition of these main points gives the students confident knowledge of the important stuff, and keeps them from getting lost in the details.
Is Kindergarten Truly Necessary?
School, then, is not a separate “fourth estate,” but exists to strengthen the home and help parents raise faithful Christians who participate fully in the life of the church.
Imitation: The Path to Excellence
“For even as a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellency with one tongue.” We need other tongues, the tongues of the best and wisest, and when we spend time with them and imitate them, we become excellent.
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