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It’s curious … to read what people in the time of Ford
wrote about scientific progress… Knowledge was the
Jump Rope highest good. Truth the supreme value. All the rest was
secondary and subordinate... Our Ford himself did a
Over 50 jumpers across three teams participated in great deal to shift the emphasis from truth and beauty to
the Jump Rope program this year under the direction comfort and happiness. Mass production demanded the
of Anne Lynn Minick. In addition to delighting fans shift. Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily
during half-time shows at Mars Hill basketball games, turning. Truth and beauty can’t. And of course, whenever
the Performance Team entertained crowds at the masses seized political power, then it was happiness
Middletown Christian School, Cincinnati Christian rather than truth and beauty that mattered… People still
School, CHESS School, and Cedarville University. This went on talking about truth and beauty as though they
year marked the debut of the Junior Performance were the sovereign goods right up to the time of the nine
Team, which jumped alongside the Performance Team year’s war. That made them change their tune, alright!
at home basketball games. The Developmental Team What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when
enjoyed expanding their jumping skills coached and the anthrax bombs are popping all around you? That is
mentored by members of the Performance Team. when science first began to be controlled after the nine
year’s war.
People were ready to even have their appetites
controlled then. Anything for a quiet life. We’ve gone on
controlling ever since. It hasn’t been very good for truth,
of course, but it’s been very good for happiness. One
can’t have something for nothing. Happiness has got to
be paid for.
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The study of the old and particularly beautiful invites
students to ponder deeply that which matters most—
sometimes by statement of fact, sometimes by
antithesis. What is happiness? Does happiness keep the
Basketball wheels turning? What is the real source of happiness?
What is the good life? Does truth matter? Does it matter
more than happiness? Is “happiness” worth sacrificing
The basketball season saw ten MHA teams truth, beauty, goodness, and freedom? Your freedom, or
competing from the youth through varsity level. The someone else’s? How do these ideas and your opinions
Varsity boys were coached by John Thistleton, assisted of them compare to the source of truth, beauty, and
by Chris Lutz and Nick Basil. The Junior High boys, goodness—God Himself as revealed in His Holy Word?
coached by Aaron Mahl with assistants Chris Knodel Where else do students plumb these depths? None other
and Kristin Gilman, won the OVCC regular season than in a classical and Christian school like Mars Hill
championship and finished as runners-up in the OVCC Academy!
championship tournament. The regular season title is In a world increasingly shaped by comfort,
the first OVCC basketball championship for MHA. The convenience, and conformity—where truth is often
youth developmental teams saw growth in the skills sidelined for ease, and beauty dismissed as irrelevant—
and knowledge of all the players, with the fifth and Mars Hill Academy stands in joyful defiance. Here,
sixth grade girls team finishing their season as students are not conditioned for compliance but called
undefeated league champions. to courage. They are not offered soma, but Scripture.
They read Shakespeare and the Psalms. They memorize
Euclid and learn to love what is good. At Mars Hill, we do
not aim to produce citizens of a stable society, but
disciples of a living Savior. We believe that truth is not
only worth teaching—but worth sacrificing for. And we
are committed to forming young men and women who
will choose truth over comfort, beauty over utility,
goodness over gain. Because the stakes are eternal—and
because the world needs more than flivvers.
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