Theme of the Year

Each year at Regents we pick a virtue to serve as the theme of our year. The theme guides what we talk about in Chapel and upper school devotions. It is what we reflect on as teachers and strive to keep in the forefront of our attention as we interact with students. This year our virtue is hope.

"I want to make sure we define hope rightly," said Principal Mason Muur at Grammar School Chapel. "I use this word every single day but when I say things like, 'I hope you have a great day,' that’s not really capturing the actual nature of the word hope. Hope is the confident expectation that what God has promised, will come to pass and resting in that."

Hope is more than well wishes or a desire for something to be a certain way. "Hope is the fuel God created us to run on as humans," said teacher Christopher Harris to his Rhetoric students. "Hope is the confident expectation in the goodness of God and it is available to us at all times. This gas can is a visual reminder that we need to be filled with hope and that it’s always available. We just need to take it and get ourselves filled up with it. Just like it takes awhile to fill up a gas tank in a car, so we need to spend time filling up our hope and we do that by meditating on the promises of Scripture and trusting in God."