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Peter Sellick

Peter Sellick an Anglican deacon working in Perth with a background in the biological sciences. He has a website called Coondle Art Presentations.

Author's website: Peter Sellick’s home page

Arts criticism today
The Arts - 9/05/2013 - 23 comments

The meaning of life?
Religion & Spirituality - 10/04/2013 - 51 comments

Creation is a more fundamental notion than nature.
Religion & Spirituality - 19/03/2013 - 145 comments

What happened to getting to heaven?
Religion & Spirituality - 26/02/2013 - 13 comments

The beauty of Christ
Religion & Spirituality - 6/02/2013 - 23 comments

Preaching to late modernity
Religion & Spirituality - 30/01/2013 - 14 comments

Why has so much contemporary art become so boring?
The Arts - 20/08/2012 - 47 comments

Gay marriage: an argument against
Law & Liberties - 1/08/2012 - 91 comments

The atheist convention: a missed opportunity
April 2012 Feature - 16/04/2012 - 46 comments

After a long battle with cancer
Religion & Spirituality - 2/04/2012 - 80 comments

The Edith Trilogy and rationalism
Political Philosophy - 2/03/2012 - 34 comments

Christianity for Atheists
Religion & Spirituality - 28/07/2011 - 83 comments

The exclusivity of Jesus
Religion & Spirituality - 25/05/2011 - 67 comments

Innate ideas and the God shaped hole
Religion & Spirituality - 17/02/2011 - 63 comments

What future for the fine arts?
The Arts - 4/01/2011 - 13 comments

Newton and the Trinity
Religion & Spirituality - 29/11/2010 - 63 comments

Taming the beast within
Religion & Spirituality - 1/11/2010 - 22 comments

Christian dogma changed by science?
Religion & Spirituality - 8/09/2010 - 36 comments

The end of politics
Domestic Politics - 30/07/2010 - 67 comments

Living out of control
July 2010 Feature - 7/07/2010 - 8 comments

The Uniting Church in dire straits
Religion & Spirituality - 29/04/2010 - 38 comments

Two ontologies of ‘being’
Religion & Spirituality - 29/03/2010 - 25 comments

The absence of Christian art
Religion & Spirituality - 4/02/2010 - 9 comments

‘Ockham’s Razor’, a program about science or a soapbox for prejudice?
Science & Technology - 5/01/2010 - 106 comments

The pros and cons of biblical criticism
Religion & Spirituality - 4/12/2009 - 45 comments

Is God the cause of the world?
Religion & Spirituality - 16/10/2009 - 371 comments

Monotheism: not as simple as you think
Religion & Spirituality - 14/09/2009 - 42 comments

How do we define human being?
Religion & Spirituality - 14/08/2009 - 406 comments

Are we safe?
Religion & Spirituality - 29/06/2009 - 46 comments

On being human
Religion & Spirituality - 25/05/2009 - 131 comments

The resurrection of Jesus Christ
Religion & Spirituality - 24/04/2009 - 147 comments

The trouble with liberalism
Religion & Spirituality - 30/03/2009 - 202 comments

The impossibility of atheism II
Religion & Spirituality - 27/02/2009 - 94 comments

The impossibility of atheism
Religion & Spirituality - 29/01/2009 - 298 comments

Mary as the figure of the Church
Religion & Spirituality - 24/12/2008 - 77 comments

'The Plumb Trilogy' and the modern world
Religion & Spirituality - 25/11/2008 - 30 comments

Our culture of death
Law & Liberties - 31/10/2008 - 85 comments

On preaching
Religion & Spirituality - 30/09/2008 - 17 comments

The truth of the Christian story
Religion & Spirituality - 29/08/2008 - 311 comments

The problem with modern art
The Arts - 4/08/2008 - 8 comments

Why Christians do not believe in morality
July 2008 Feature - 9/07/2008 - 31 comments

An age in thrall to enthusiasm
Religion & Spirituality - 13/06/2008 - 36 comments

God and Jane Austen
Religion & Spirituality - 5/05/2008 - 25 comments

Anti-dogmatism
Religion & Spirituality - 7/04/2008 - 82 comments

Is the Church high culture?
Religion & Spirituality - 29/02/2008 - 18 comments

Creator of Heaven and Earth
Religion & Spirituality - 4/02/2008 - 136 comments

The rationality of faith
Religion & Spirituality - 16/01/2008 - 61 comments

The failure of Protestantism
Religion & Spirituality - 7/12/2007 - 29 comments

The Church and management techniques
Religion & Spirituality - 5/11/2007 - 8 comments

The Enlightenment?
Religion & Spirituality - 1/10/2007 - 103 comments

The Australian Church, a church without martyrs
Religion & Spirituality - 27/08/2007 - 89 comments

The same tired old arguments from the unbelievers
Religion & Spirituality - 31/07/2007 - 144 comments

From seeing to hearing: a different kind of knowing
Religion & Spirituality - 18/06/2007 - 5 comments

Prostitution, a moral hazard
Religion & Spirituality - 7/05/2007 - 70 comments

The liturgy of the Church
Religion & Spirituality - 5/04/2007 - 117 comments

On confession
Religion & Spirituality - 13/03/2007 - 18 comments

The nonexistence of the spirit world
Religion & Spirituality - 12/02/2007 - 347 comments

The centrality of the body in Christian theology
Religion & Spirituality - 5/01/2007 - 116 comments

The rise of secular religion
Religion & Spirituality - 13/12/2006 - 177 comments

How does God exist?
Religion & Spirituality - 9/11/2006 - 246 comments

The predictable journey of outcomes based education
Education - 9/10/2006 - 28 comments

Bland, politically correct values
September 2006 Feature - 12/09/2006 - 48 comments

Is heaven real?
Religion & Spirituality - 16/08/2006 - 149 comments

Choice: the current mask of nihilism
July 2006 Feature - 7/07/2006 - 67 comments

Putting God back in the church
Religion & Spirituality - 13/06/2006 - 46 comments

Duped by secular rationalism
Religion & Spirituality - 15/05/2006 - 164 comments

The source of true self
Religion & Spirituality - 13/04/2006 - 88 comments

'The Expulsion'
Religion & Spirituality - 7/03/2006 - 40 comments

The polarisation of the church: liberalism and fundamentalism
Religion & Spirituality - 3/02/2006 - 38 comments

The problem with liberal democracy
Religion & Spirituality - 11/01/2006 - 34 comments

Preaching as art
Religion & Spirituality - 14/12/2005 - 10 comments

Apocalypse now: why we shouldn't fear if the end is nigh
Religion & Spirituality - 9/11/2005 - 50 comments

Church welfare takes the well-paved road
Religion & Spirituality - 11/10/2005 - 10 comments

Intelligent design - damaging good science and good theology
Religion & Spirituality - 9/09/2005 - 140 comments

Why Christianity’s particularity is better than John Lennon's universalism
Religion & Spirituality - 18/08/2005 - 108 comments

The perils of pornography
Religion & Spirituality - 18/07/2005 - 55 comments

The scandal of Christianity
Religion & Spirituality - 22/06/2005 - 122 comments

PETA: An example of extreme rationality
Religion & Spirituality - 24/05/2005 - 30 comments

Should we change for the church or should the church change for us?
Religion & Spirituality - 27/04/2005 - 54 comments

Religious feeling
Religion & Spirituality - 24/03/2005 - 4 comments

Separation of God and politics
Religion & Spirituality - 2/03/2005 - 63 comments

The metaphysics of the one-night stand
Religion & Spirituality - 25/01/2005 - 5 comments

Earthquakes and the objectivity of the world
Religion & Spirituality - 5/01/2005 - 8 comments

In the company of Mary
Religion & Spirituality - 21/12/2004 - 31 comments

Lot, his daughters and the abortion debate
Religion & Spirituality - 25/11/2004 - 6 comments

Book review: John Carroll and 'The Wreck of Western Culture'
Religion & Spirituality - 26/10/2004 - 4 comments

'God on our side: the real deal' - the disturbing side of Christian fundamentalism
Religion & Spirituality - 28/09/2004

The Olympics: A celebration of the human spirit but not a religion
Sport - 24/08/2004

Consequences of the Reformation: the post-Protestant church
Religion & Spirituality - 22/07/2004

Towards a dumb reading of the bible
Religion & Spirituality - 25/06/2004

What does Cardinal Pell think is wrong with Catholic education?
Religion & Spirituality - 27/05/2004

The Christian community’s order as a model of Western civil order
Religion & Spirituality - 29/04/2004

Islamic terrorism and the failure to separate the sacred from the civil
Religion & Spirituality - 6/04/2004

Managerial attitudes are slowly taking over our lives and putting us to sleep
Religion & Spirituality - 3/03/2004

Has secular sexual freedom sowed the seeds of social disintegration?
Religion & Spirituality - 5/02/2004 - 2 comments

The Christian Doctrine of Creation: dead duck or saving truth?
Religion & Spirituality - 8/01/2004 - 1 comment

A secular Christmas is hollow and therefore brings no lasting joy
December 2003 Feature - 1/12/2003

Kill Bill: Are we breaking back into paganism in the movies?
Religion & Spirituality - 18/11/2003

Is there a Christian response to the growth in medical technology?
Religion & Spirituality - 21/10/2003

Seek My Face
Religion & Spirituality - 23/09/2003

The practical difficulties of teaching 'religion' in the school system
Religion & Spirituality - 29/08/2003

How the Enlightenment made Christian belief impossible
Religion & Spirituality - 19/08/2003

The spiritual shortcomings of the God of the scientist turned theologian
Religion & Spirituality - 3/07/2003 - 1 comment

Obedience to the unenforceable is a statement of grace as old as the bible
June 2003 Feature - 9/06/2003

There is no earthly way to avoid the temper of this time between times
Religion & Spirituality - 7/05/2003

Is theology irrelevant in modern life?
Religion & Spirituality - 15/04/2003

Faith cannot be replaced by therapy or self-help manuals - there is more to life
March 2003 Feature - 11/03/2003

Christian community in the shadow of Hegel, Nietzsche, and Fukuyama
Religion & Spirituality - 10/02/2003

The horrors of Advent and the celebration of Christmas
Religion & Spirituality - 18/12/2002

The enduring beauty of Radical Orthodoxy
Religion & Spirituality - 13/12/2002

How celebrating Life displaces celebrating God
Religion & Spirituality - 21/11/2002

Environmentalists: the New Pharisees?
Religion & Spirituality - 30/10/2002

Who is responsible for the death of God?
Religion & Spirituality - 21/10/2002

The death of God: a retrospective
Religion & Spirituality - 15/09/2002

Sometimes, faking it is the only choice
Religion & Spirituality - 3/09/2002

Materialism and religion
Religion & Spirituality - 15/08/2002

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