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Get Woke! Stay Woke! The Imperative of Active Consciousness

March 6, 2018

There is a hashtag in social media that describes a recent, though hardly novel concept: #WOKE. In this current context, being “woke” is a description of a politically charged state of consciousness, above and beyond previously normal states, that entails a new level of hyper-awareness of the social and political climate, particularly regarding the plight of underrepresented and oppressed minorities and the economically powerless. It entails a new understanding of, and a new attitude towards, the underlying inequities in our…

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Of Service and Love: Sharing Ourselves Through Serving Others

By Brian Scott Archibald Originally Published June 30, 2015 Service, in its deepest sense, is an act of love. By serving others, I am sharing myself. I am giving something very personal to those…

June 30, 2015
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The Three Virtues of Service: More Than Just Doing What You Love

Being of service is empowering to each and every one of us. The more we are of service; the better we become at being of service; the better we feel about ourselves; the better…

June 2, 2015
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The Genesis of Our Moral Duty to Serve

We did not ask to be here. Our existence is a brute fact, over which we had no control and about which no deciding voice. We were literally dragged kicking and screaming into this…

May 28, 2015
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Why We Fight: Finding the Core of Our Humanity to Avoid Cultural Conflict and Embrace Our Call to Service

Our world is full of competing and conflicting ideas about what to believe and how to behave. We argue about what is right and what is wrong, about what is best for ourselves and…

May 22, 2015
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Through mutual service, we can build a better society, grow a sustainable and thriving economy, and develop and nurture happier, more fulfilled people.

Morality, as it turns out, is an effective survival strategy, not simply the right thing to do. Morality is, at its core, essentially practical. While also being a spiritually fulfilling aspect of human life,…

May 21, 2015
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Moral Action in an Inequitable Economy: How Service Can Resolve Our Socioeconomic Inequality Crisis

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves…. It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even…

March 19, 2015
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“The only truly moral life is a life of service.”
~Brian Scott Archibald

The only truly moral life is a life of service. The Rule of Service is a binding moral contract we all share that has but one dogmatic assertion—one self-evident truth we cannot defy, dismiss, devalue, demean,…

March 18, 2015
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The Rule and Rules of Service: Setting A Foundation for Moral Action

The Rule of Service The often diametrically opposed provinces of moral action and economic endeavor in our normal, day-to-day lives are nevertheless entwined in countless ways: the most important of which, their relation to…

March 18, 2015