by Renée Knapp | Mar 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
From our earliest feminist sisters, such as Rosa Luxemburg, an anti-war activist, philosopher and economist, and Clara Zetkin who fought for women’s suffrage and to establish a day for us all, “International Women’s Day;” to the ones who wrestled over many decades to...
by Renée Knapp | Mar 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
photo credit: Melanie Gordon Photography In her memoir, A Good Wife. Escaping the Life I Never Chose, Samra Zafar explores the roots of her abusive arranged marriage and her courageous breakaway from the confinement imposed on her. Samra Zafar, a woman of Pakistani...
by Renée Knapp | Mar 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
Photo credit: Mark Haddock My friend J.S. Porter and I recently published a multi-genre volume of reflections titled Superabundantly Alive: Thomas Merton’s Dance with the Feminine (Wood Lake, 2018).* We feel that Thomas Merton and other contemplatives of mystical...
by Renée Knapp | Feb 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
The discipline of Psychology teaches us that Blind Obedience is a behaviour whereby people do as they are told without thinking for themselves on whether what they hear is true or whether they should obey orders. In combat, soldiers are trained to follow orders...
by Renée Knapp | Jan 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
When the late, great writer and poet, David W. McFadden, won the 2014 Giller Prize for Excellence in Poetry for What’s the Score? (Mansfield, 2013), my first poetry manuscript was still out in left field without a literary home. “David,” I asked, “what advice can you...
