On Sunday, November 19 at 4:00pm, Sursum Corda Classical School, a new school opening in Fall of 2024 at Faith Lutheran Church in Oregon, will be hosting an Open House. Our goal is to create an education to “lift up hearts” (sursum corda in Latin). We are looking for families to be a part of the first […]
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An Education to Lift Up Hearts!
Imagine a school where students hearts are lifted up – Lifted above the issues of the modern world, and free to think and live differently. This is our goal.
Help us open a classical school in Oregon, WI!
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A Small Beginning & The Virtue of Temperance
Hard ≠ Bad is a common and familiar modern platitude. My wife and I have been saying this a lot lately. Another phrase should be small ≠ bad, especially when talking about schools. One of the virtues of modern American culture, especially of the majority of our education system, is the “virtue” of pragmatism. Where […]

The Liberal Arts & The Lifting of Hearts
Presentation by Rev. Jeff Hendrix, given at the 2023 Family Altar Conference: For Altar and For Hearth, by Return to Wittenberg at Faith Lutheran Church, Oregon, WI, May 20, 2023.
SURSUM CORDA:
“Lift Up Your Hearts!”
♡ Sursum Corda Classical will provide a classical, Biblical education to children. By using the classical approach within the framework of a confessional Lutheran character, the school will aim to allow students to “lift up their hearts.”
♡ Through the nurturing of grammar, logic, and rhetoric, students will rise above simply learning a set of skills, to rather be free to discover what is true, good, and beautiful.
♡ By engaging with the greatest of literature and wisdom from the past to the present, students will be freed to think above the issues of the modern world.
♡ With a schedule that includes parents in the education of their children, families will be freed for service in their highest and most important vocations.
♡ Finally, with the Gospel of Christ and the forgiveness of sins forming the foundation of the school, students’ hearts will be truly lifted up – free from sin.