Keywords: Margaret Dooley Awards
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Alice Johnson
- 09 October 2013
3 Comments
In a contemporary society where the focus lies amid a whirlpool of egocentricity, self-gain and self-improvement, one must question where the true motive for giving service lies. While the 'ethic of duty' is the ethic of the social gospel movements, Kant believed religion was only valuable because it caused one to lead a good moral life. Thus it is possible to argue that the habit of giving true service lies in the 'ethic of love'.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Jessica Voelker
- 14 September 2011
1 Comment
One American physicist claims each breath we take contains molecules of air that were also breathed by Archimedes, Aristotle, and even Jesus Christ. Through physics, religion, the human body, and mythology, there is a thread that weaves us into a continuous rich tapestry.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
The Eureka Street/Reader's Feast Award was announced today in conjunction with Eureka Street's other annual ethical essay-writing award, the Margaret Dooley Award.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Susie Byers
- 20 October 2010
2 Comments
Harry Wetnose the Bigeye Tuna will probably never adorn any T-shirts. Nevertheless, the endangered Bigeye Tuna is in big trouble and could do with some help. The way we relate to fish raises some important questions about what it is to be a responsible person in the world.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
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AUSTRALIA
- Cara Munro
- 06 January 2010
13 Comments
They came to stop the violence. Four, maybe five of them, in hooded jackets and pale, worn jeans. Hovering in the car
park. Shadow-like. Haunted. We
were gathered outside the place to which he had come, bleeding, begging
for help. Wrongly, we assumed they had come to join us.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Helen Brake
- 03 September 2009
8 Comments
For international students, the eagerness to accept new faces is intensified by a desire to make Australian friends, improve communication skills, and embrace all the opportunities available to them.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Ben Coleridge
- 14 August 2009
The lecturer's joke about religion is met with laughter. Here, 'faith' is the jester. In dismissing faith, we dismiss people for whom faith is central to the search for truth. We exclude them from that task of imagination and creation.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
Multi-faith dialogue is just a conversation, over time, between dear friends.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
Reader's Feast Bookstore is delighted to once again join with Eureka Street to offer an award in the area of social justice writing. Funded by Reader's Feast Bookstore and organised by Eureka Street, the theme for the essay was 'Climate change and the global financial crisis: can we afford to save the planet?'
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INTERNATIONAL
In Melbourne, 2000 Indian students gather to protest a lack of Government response to a spate of violent attacks. I am
with them because I am ashamed that a white Christian woman is safer
in the military capital of Rawalpindi than these students are on a
train in Melbourne.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
Submission guidelines for the Eureka Street/Reader's Feast and Margaret Dooley Awards 2009 are now online.
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