Diversity Training: From You to the “Other ” Chaplain Edward Huff, BS, MLS, MA in Catholic...

Diversity Training: From You to the “OtherDiversity Training: From You to the “Other””

Chaplain Edward Huff, BS, MLS, Chaplain Edward Huff, BS, MLS,

MA in Catholic Thought and Life, BCCMA in Catholic Thought and Life, BCC

“It is possible to be a believer and a listener at the same time, to be both fervent and searching, to nurture a vital identity and to wonder at the identities of others.”

Krista Tippett

“Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians because these Christians are talking where they should be listening.”

Krista Tippett

Owensboro Demographics

Population: Daviess County 93,334

Owensboro 55,525

Caucasian: 92.1% 86,711

African American: 3.1% 2,922

Hispanic: 4.1% 1,235

Asian: .6% 591

Native American: 0.0% 30

Other/Multirace: 4.1% 3,872

72.73% have religious affiliation

Protestant: 43.71%

Roman Catholic: 21.29%

Latter Day Saints: .27%

Jewish: .05%

Other Christian: 6.91%

Personal Income

Daviess County: $28,259.00

Kentucky: $28,272.00

U.S.: $34,471.00

Labor Market Area Range: $20,429 - $34,194

“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”

Anne Frank

“Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.”

Elbert Hubbard

“It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.”

James Baldwin

“We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.”

Jimmy Carter

“If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.” John F. Kennedy

“It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.”

Mark Twain

“Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.”

Mohandas K. Gandhi

“In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.”

Kofi Annan

“We have the ability to achieve, if we master the necessary goodwill, a common global society blessed with a shared culture of peace that is nourished by the ethnic, national and local diversities that enrich our lives.”

Mahnaz Afkhami

“Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.”

Mikhail Gorbachev

“Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.”

M. Scott Peck

“Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.”

Vandana Shiva

“Diversity is not about how we differ. Diversity is about embracing one another's uniqueness.”

Ola Joseph

“[God] sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.”

Matthew 5:45

“Diversity - The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”

Joseph Campbell

Each of the four divine abodes can be considered different modes of loving-kindness.

Ryuei Michael McCormick

The Limitless AbodesThe Limitless Abodes

Metta or Loving Kindness

Karuna or Compassion

Mudita or Sympathetic Joy

Equanimity

Metta “Loving-Kindness"

The wish that all beings may be well and happy.

Ryuei Michael McCormick

Karuna “Compassion”

When one regards beings who are afflicted with suffering, loving-kindness becomes compassion.

Ryuei Michael McCormick

Mudita“Sympathetic Joy”

When one regards beings who are enjoying the rewards of meritorious action, loving-

kindness becomes sympathetic joy.

Ryuei Michael McCormick

Equanimity

The feeling of even-mindedness in the face of both suffering and joy. It is the ability to be equal minded in all circumstances and towards both friend and foe.

It is the ability to regard all beings with loving-kindness without any trace of partiality or bias. This

is loving-kindness developed to point where all boundaries are transcended.

Ryuei Michael McCormick