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.
Cultivating Leisure in the Classroom
Regular church attendance and daily chapel establish a culture of leisure, because divine worship is the source of all leisure.
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.
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.
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.
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.
God’s Gift of Math through Boethius
Thanks to Boethius and those who built upon what he began, we have access to a rich collection of classical mathematical works in arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy.
The Most Lamentable Comedy of Pyramus and Thisbe
“You could be torn away from me, alas!, by death alone; yet you will not be able to be torn away even by death!”
The Combat Between David and Goliath
Kuhnau’s “The Combat Between David and Goliath” is rich in text painting and theological insight.
Leisure, according to Josef Pieper
“Man seems to mistrust everything that is effortless; he can only enjoy, with a good conscience, what he has acquired with toil and trouble; he refuses to have anything as a gift.”
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