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.

Amoretti LXXV: One Day I Wrote her Name

Where whenas death shall all the world subdue, our love shall live, and later life renew.

Pastor Andrew Richard March 16, 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.

Pastor Andrew Richard March 9, 2020

A Gallery of Melancholy

Whenever the devil pesters you with these thoughts, at once seek out the company of men, drink more, joke and jest…

Pastor Andrew Richard March 2, 2020

When I Consider How My Light Is Spent

“God doth not need either man’s work or his own gifts; who best bear his mild yoke, they serve him best.”

Pastor Andrew Richard February 24, 2020

If—

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

Pastor Andrew Richard February 18, 2020

The Gospel according to Beowulf

Throughout the poem there is language connecting the heroic exploits of Beowulf to the salvation that Christ has accomplished for us.

Pastor Andrew Richard February 10, 2020

There Is No Frigate Like a Book

My students are learning about what it means to be human. What is worth living for? What is worth dying for?

Mrs. Angela Hill February 4, 2020

A Poem While Awaiting Execution

But from this earth, this grave, this dust,
My God shall raise me up, I trust.

Pastor Andrew Richard January 27, 2020

How the Wyse Man Taught Hys Sone

Son, your wife you shall not chide, nor call her by no vile name, for she that shall lie by your side, to call her wicked, it is your shame.

Pastor Andrew Richard January 20, 2020

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