THE POLITICS OF MAKNG A DIFFERENCE: Bishop Matthew Hassan KUKAH
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THE POLITICS OF MAKNG A DIFFERENCE:
Bishop Matthew Hassan KUKAH
DIFFERENCE, WHAT DIFFERENCE?
What Difference? Different from What?
Who Sacrifices for a Difference(Pig & Chicken)
Difference? Who Gains, Who Loses: Consequences
Vision of Difference: What will Tomorrow Be?
Consequences of Difference: On Individual-Society
Building Blocks and Sustainability
OBSTACLES TO MAKING A DIFFERENCE
Culture: We have always done it this way
Religion: Dogma: Tradition: Ancestors
Individual vs. Community
Ignorance: It is impossible. It has never been done
Environment: The Men in Plato’s Cave
Funding Change: Who Will Pay? Who will Lose?
WHERE & HOW DO WE MAKE A DIFFERENCE? Bernard Shaw-David & Goliath-Mother Mary
Between Danger and Opportunity
Failure is Success by another Name: Lincoln
Seizing the Moment: Time Meets Man: Obama
Courage-Knowledge-Goal Setting
One vs. the Crowd
The Road Not Taken
People who changed the world in the 20th Century cf. www.biography online…
Winston Churchill – Leader of Great Britain during World War Two
Adolf Hitler – Leader of Nazi Germany 1933-45
Nelson Mandela – First President of post-apartheid South Africa
Joseph Stalin – Leader of Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
Martin Luther King – Prominent Civil rights activist in the US
Mikhail Gorbachev – Leader of Soviet Union from 1985-91. Oversaw transition to democracy and collapse of Berlin Wall.
Chairman Mao – Leader of Communist China and instigator of Cultural Revolution.
Mother Teresa – Humanitarian and charity worker
Bill Gates – Founder of Microsoft
Rosa Parks – Civil rights campaigner, fighting against segregation in the deep south of America
Mahatma Gandhi: Great Indian Statesman and Teacher of Non-Violence
Born four years apart, brothers
Wilbur and Orville Wright grew up
in a small town in Ohio. They
shared an intellectual curiosity
and an aptitude for science, at a
time when the possibility of
human flight was beginning to
look like a reality. Together, the
Wright brothers developed the
first successful airplane in Kitty
Hawk, North Carolina—and
together they became national
heroes. Considered the fathers of
modern aviation, they developed
innovative technology and
inspired imaginations around the
world.
Orville Wright Born: August 19, 1871 Died: January 30, 1948 Dayton, Ohio Wilbur Wright Born: April 16, 1867 Died: May 30, 1912 Dayton, Ohio
Born in 1910, in Skopje, Macedonia, Mother Teresa taught in India for 17 years before in 1946 she experienced her "call within a call" to devote herself to caring for the sick and poor. Her order established a hospice; centers for the blind, aged, and disabled; and a leper colony. In 1979 she received the Nobel Peace Prize for her humanitarian work. She died in September 1997 and was beatified in October 2003. In December 2015, Pope Francis recognized a second miracle attributed to Mother Teresa, clearing the way for her to be canonized as Saint Teresa of Calcutta on September 4, 2016.
Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15th 1929 in Atlanta Georgia, son of a Baptist pastor.
He was a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
In 1955 he took leadership of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
In 1957 along with other civil rights activists he founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to organize and conduct non-violent protests for civil rights.
In February 1959 he traveled to India to study Mahatma Gandhi’s principles of non-violence.
On June 23rd 1963 he led a Freedom Walk in Detroit Michigan; 125,000 took part in the walk.
On August 28th 1963 at a historic march in Washington DC for jobs, freedom, racial equality and the end of discrimination Martin Luther King delivered his I have a dream speech.
On October 14th 1964 he became the youngest man (age 35) to receive a Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through non-violence.
He was arrested many times during his protests for civil rights.
November 27 1967 he announces the Poor People Campaign focusing
on jobs and freedom for the poor of all races.
He was assassinated on April 4th 1968.
Karol Józef Wojtyła was born in the polish town of Wadowice (18 May 1920 – 2 April 2005)
On 1 November 1946 he was ordained as a priest.
On 28 September 1958 he was consecrated as auxiliary bishop of Kraków
In October 1962, he took part in the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965)
On 13 January 1964, Pope Paul VI appointed him Archbishop of Kraków.
On 26 June 1967, Paul VI nominated him as a Cardinal
On 16 October 1978 he was elected Pope and took the name of John Paul II. He was Pope from 1978 – 2005.
He is recognised as helping to end Communist rule in his native Poland and eventually all of Europe.
He significantly improved the Catholic Church's relations with Judaism, Islam, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Anglican Communion.
He was one of the most travelled world leaders in history, visiting 129 countries during his pontificate.
His cause for canonisation commenced in 2005 one month after his death with the traditional five-year waiting period waived. He was canonised on 27 April 2014 (Divine Mercy Sunday).
His feast day is celebrated on the 22nd October.
WILL WE ALL MAKE THE HEADLINES?
Setting our Own Goals (Little Jonnie)
Leaders vs. Office Holders
Leaders who had no Office
Officers who could not Lead
We are all Leaders: Home-Office-
Volunteering as a Vehicle for Leadership
The Four Way Test vs. Last Judgment
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