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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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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Math Primary Texts

Mathematicians of the past see numbers in unique ways, and this is a significant benefit of reading math primary texts and bringing their ideas into classrooms and curricula.

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