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Reflections on Morality, Philosophy, and History

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ONLINE DISCUSSION: Roman Stoic Philosopher Cicero On Friendship and Virtue

ONLINE DISCUSSION: Roman Stoic Philosopher Cicero On Friendship and Virtue Thursday, 1/22/2026, 6:30 PM Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85042816509?pwd=rM9anYb1dgbLKjhlwgnVUcUoOGafvb.1 ONLINE DISCUSSION: Saturday 01/14/26 10 AM: Homosexuality, the Bible, and the Church: The Zondervan Debates https://seekingvirtueandwisdom.com/homosexuality-the-bible-and-the-church/ (We c...


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Sunrise Community Police Academy, Introduction: What Has Changed in Policing?

The Sunrise Police Department offers a Community Police Academy, where the interested public vicariously experience what police encounter on the beat. You need to take this course to become a volunteer Community Resource Aide, but you can also take it to become a better-informed citizen. Do you receive a badge? No, but you do receive an ID card, and the inside numeric list of...


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Sunrise Community Police Academy: What is New? Cameras, Technology, Guns, SWAT Team, and More

Caution is a policeman’s main defense against bullets headed their way. Police are rarely in a rush to approach the driver during a traffic stop, nor are they in a rush to knock on the door for a domestic dispute call. If possible, they wait until other policemen arrive. The more backup, the better. I was surprised to learn how policemen respond to other police pulling them o...


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Plato’s Republic, Book 1, On Aging and Morality, a Better Word for Justice

Reading Robin Waterfield’s translation was like breathing fresh alpine air. When I thought that Plato’s Republic was about justice, I reasoned that this was because Socrates sought to train Athenians to be better citizens in a direct democracy, a skill that would not be needed in the later totalitarian Roman Empire. But Robin Waterfield’s translation of the Republic makes mor...


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Paul Tournier, Christian Psychologist on Marriage and Widows in Old Age and Retirement

What is the ideal, according to Paul Tournier? “Growing old together, husband and wife can come to know a love which is, in a way, a prefiguration of heaven, for it is less tumultuous than the love of youth, being less directed towards selfish pleasure-seeking, and because a slow advance in mutual comprehension permits more authentic communication.”


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