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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.

The Ivy Green

The brave old plant, in its lonely days, shall fatten upon the past: For the stateliest building man can raise, is the Ivy’s food at last.

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Pastor Andrew Richard April 3, 2020

Holy Sonnet X

You only get to die once. Practice scorning death now so that you regard it with the proper contempt when the time comes.

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Pastor Andrew Richard March 18, 2020

The Joy of Sonnets

The sonnet form gives the poet precisely 140 syllables in which to make a point. One might think this would be limiting. Quite the opposite.

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Pastor Andrew Richard March 9, 2020

If—

The world needs men like Kipling describes in this poem: wives need them, sons need them, congregations need them, cities need them.

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Pastor Andrew Richard February 18, 2020

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