Rebecca Walker
Rebecca Walker has her Honours B.A. in Latin and English and her M.A. in English from the University of Ottawa. She currently lives in Ottawa and does freelance writing as well as university contract work. She hopes to resume graduate studies in Ottawa.
Bio last updated April 30th, 2018.
Articles by Rebecca Walker
Prophet of the Culture of Death
By Rebecca Walker
August 1, 2016
Republication this year of Monsignor R.H. Benson's 109-year-old novel Lord of the World, Rebecca Walker says, illuminates our own darkness, in which Man worships Man and medical killing is considered mere technological comfort.
In Benson's book, Communist leader Oliver Brand and his wife, Mabel, illustrate the consequences of relativism, but their beliefs are complicated by the fact that the book is about the Antichrist, Julian Felsenburgh, ultimately seen by the smitten mob as "Lord and God," the consummate expression of humanity Benson's willed adherence to his faith does not mean that he lost sight of the worth of the individual and his subjectivity; in fact, Benson saw the Catholic Church as the last bastion of individualism Benson illustrates how it is logical that someone like Felsenburgh should decree that all believers in God be euthanized Again and again in Lord of the World, someone comments to Father Franklin that, with his white hair and young face, he looks very much like Felsenburgh ) Benson demonstrates that once man has gone beyond his rightful ordering of creation to negation of creation, he will also see life and death as falling within his domain
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A Pilgrimage Through Little Things
Rebecca Walker
December 1, 2015
In rereading Michael D. O’Brien’s classic Strangers and Sojourners, Rebecca Walker finds the gift of guidance through the worlds of suffering and grace.
Readers of O’Brien’s other Children of the Last Days novels will realize that he focuses on Anne because she is the matriarch of a line of “truth sayers”: sensitive, but also educated and articulate in a way that Anne’s strong, silent husband is not ...