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.
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.”
“Introduction to Arithmetic”
Number is inherent in the way Christ holds the universe together, so to know what numbers are (not just how to use them or why to use them) is imperative for a Christian mathematics education.
Leading Ovid to Jesus
The Christian takes the Greek myth by the hand, so to speak, and leads him to Jesus. Ovid makes some fine points, but only Christians can take those points to their proper destination in the truth of Holy Scripture.
Ready for “Real Life”
The Christian should always want to be sheltered under the Word of God, in the company of fellow Christians.
English Country Dancing
It’s delightful to see an entire room of dancers participating with each other in something that is both intricately designed and just plain fun at the same time.
Handel’s “Messiah”
Little indeed are the hopes of ever equalling, much less of excelling so vast a Proficient in his own way…
Lessons from the Wilds of Wyoming
What a beautiful picture of redemption: that God sends out His salvation even to the wild, barren, and dirty places, making them beloved pastures for His little flock.
Materialism and Science
This is why it’s so important for us to teach our students sound doctrine and how it informs scientific thinking. We need Christian people who can use science to its fullest and in its proper place.
The Boxcar Children
The four siblings in The Boxcar Children form an endearing band of virtuous, young role models.
“Christians, to the Paschal Victim”
Throughout the Middle Ages, the text and its rather eerie but joyfully-bursting-with-confidence Dorian chant tone was used as an Easter sequence to introduce the Gospel reading.
Sing to the Lord… an Old Song?
Why should the Church ever sound like the world? People don’t need more of the world; they need Jesus. Instead, the Church should sound unlike the world.
Cranach’s Weimar Altarpiece
The repetition of related themes throughout the painting artfully supports Christ as the central figure to whom all history had been pointing.
Johann Gerhard’s Sacred Meditations
Despair not, then, O faithful soul! Infinite Good hast thou offended by thy sins, but an infinite price has been paid for thy salvation.
Tour of Ephesus
Here strict laws are needed, the first being: Never send thy son to the theater that he may not suffer utter corruption through his ears and eyes
Hymns of 1524
“It is good and God pleasing to sing hymns…so that God’s Word and Christian teaching might be instilled and implanted in many ways”
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