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.

Columbus Day

“Let Christ rejoice upon earth as he does in heaven, to witness the coming salvation of so many people heretofore given over to perdition.”

Pastor Andrew Richard October 12, 2020

The Quest for Utopia

Man doggedly chases after a fantasy, “driven equally on by hope and despair,” and in the end only makes his life worse.

Pastor Andrew Richard September 28, 2020

The Cathayan Thank-Your-Parents Police

“there is a public office which has no other charge but that of punishing unnatural children, who are proved to have acted with ingratitude towards their parents.”

Pastor Andrew Richard September 21, 2020

The Fir Tree and the Bramble

Although Aesop was a Greek pagan, many of his Fables clearly illustrate the truths of life in this world.

Pastor Andrew Richard September 14, 2020

“Give Him the Great Things”

“Do not seek how he will live a long life here, but how he will live a boundless and endless life there. Give him the great things, not the little things.”

Pastor Andrew Richard September 8, 2020