Mt. Sophia Ideas

The ability to say “yes” means the willingness to pay a price.- Cesar Chavez

Before we start, all of the Mt. Sophia family and I send our condolences, love, and prayer to Mr. Culley at the homegoing of his daughter, Heather. (Also to her sisters, Sabrina Justison and Allison Thorp- and all their families.) May God bless and comfort you all.
Plato’s great experiment, noble as it was, came to [...]

Dr. Culley recently blessed Mt. Sophia’s World Literature and Latin students by teaching for a couple of days. It was a great experience for them to have a university-level teacher in the classroom and to gain from his years of wisdom.
I was so blessed by his World Lit lesson, that I asked if I could [...]

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble. -John Maxwell’s Mother

I’m teaching part of Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica to my students here at the end of the semester.
We got to my favorite part on Wednesday.
In Question 62, Article 1, Aquinas is trying to describe happiness.  He says that there are actually two kinds.
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The first kind is “natural happiness,” and it comes from being generally awesome [...]

Words- by Richard Foster
I urge upon us words that are crisp and clear and imaginative. Mark Twain said that the difference between the right word and the almost right word is like the difference between lightning and a lightning bug! We need to love God all the way down to our nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
Oh, [...]