Dr. Gerald Culley Wraps Up His Story and Gives the Object Lesson

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 nothing.

But that was then. This is now.

Here you sit, almost 2400 years after Plato, students in another academy. And one dedicated, as its name says, to wisdom. The influence of Plato is still strong at Mount Sophia. He believed that society would never become just and good until the character of its citizens was changed; until they began to acquire virtue and, in their wisdom, to permeate and renew the fabric of life.

Mount Sophia’s goals are not all that different from Plato’s. Its founders saw the ills and injustices of our own society, but they were convinced- and still are- that its situation is not hopeless.

What is needed?

People who are committed to the pursuit of wisdom and justice, who understand that noble actions come from noble character, and noble character from a noble soul.

That far, we are with Plato, but he needed once crucial element to reach his ideal.

For a soul to become noble, intellectual excellence must be combined with a transformation that only God can bring about through one’s faith in Christ.

Mount Sophia breathes some of the air of Plato’s Athens, but it breathes the air of Heaven as well.

Plato’s great experiment failed, at least in part because it lacked the transforming power of Jesus. Mount Sophia’s experiment, so like Plato’s, but richer and deeper, need not fail.

That experiment is you.

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