After a well deserved vacation in August, the Weeklinks are now back.

Who wants to kill a president?
Michel Houllebecq, l'enfant terrible of French contemporary literature said that Islam is the "stupidest among religions". Well, you can call yourself a Christian and still rank among the finest idiots in the world. Your name would be Pat Robertson and your aim to revise the Ten Commandments. (...)

What about the future of religion?
Have you been pondering lately about the survival of your own faith? Then you might be interested in Richard Rorty and Gianni Vattimo's book Future of Religion, it is where you can find what will it take for Christianity to survive. Or you can read a Catholic review here (...)

Intelligent Design: the faith that dare not speak its name
Thought that the Scopes "monkey trial" of 80 years ago put an end to the science and religion court debates? You're wrong! History seems to be repeating itself with the creationism vs. evolutionism debate in a U.S. court in Pennsylvania. (...)

Television in post-Byzantine times
There is a new television enterprise in Russia to promote Christian moral values and build civil society. The Romanians had it first and it failed abismally. But then this is the Russian Orthodox Television, it abhors entertainment and it's deadly serious. (...)

In memory of brother Roger: a liturgy of reconciliation
At the funeral of brother Roger, Taize's founder and a visionary of Christian unity, a Roman Catholic celebrated a funeral mass for the Protestant monk; lessons were read by Protestant pastors and an Anglican bishop; final prayers were offered by Orthodox bishops and clergy. Here is the text of the service (...)

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