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Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Photo of the Day



See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Winter Light
• Photo of the Day – December 6, 2015
• Photo of the Day – April 4, 2015
• Photo of the Day – April 9, 2013
• Photo of the Day – March 30, 2012
• Photo of the Day – January 7, 2012
• Photo of the Day – November 17, 2011

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Born and raised in Australia, I now reside in the U.S. where from 2003-2015 I served as the executive coordinator of the Catholic Pastoral Committee on Sexual Minorities (CPCSM). During this time I also helped found both The Progressive Catholic Voice and the Catholic Coalition for Church Reform.

I established The Wild Reed in 2006 as a sign of solidarity with all who are dedicated to living lives of integrity – though, in particular, with gay people seeking to be true to both the gift of their sexuality and their Catholic faith. The Wild Reed's original by-line read, "Thoughts and reflections from a progressive, gay, Catholic perspective." As you can see, it reads differently now. This is because my journey has, in many ways, taken me beyond, or perhaps better still, deeper into the realities that the words "progressive," "gay," and "Catholic" seek to describe.
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  • James Alison
  • Edward Schillebeeckx
  • Hans Küng
  • Elizabeth Johnson
  • James Carroll
  • Richard Gaillardetz
  • Joan Chittister
  • Robert McClory
  • Uta Ranke-Heinemann
  • Garry Wills
  • Terrence W. Tilley
  • Rosemary Radford Ruether
  • Paul Collins and Marilyn Hatton
  • Thomas Gumbleton
  • Rita Larivee
  • Roger Haight
  • Robert Caruso


  • In the Garden of Spirituality
  • Zainab Salbi
  • Daniel Helminiak
  • Rod Cameron
  • Paul Collins
  • Joan Chittister
  • Toby Johnson
  • Joan Timmerman
  • Uta Ranke-Heinemann
  • Caroline Jones
  • Ron Rolheiser
  • James C. Howell
  • Paulo Coelho
  • Doris Lessing
  • Michael Morwood
  • Kenneth Stokes
  • Dody Donnelly
  • Adrian Smith
  • Henri Nouwen
  • Patrick Carroll
  • Jesse Lava
  • Geoffrey Robinson
  • Joyce Rupp
  • Debbie Blue
  • Rosanne Cash
  • Elizabeth Johnson
  • Eckhart Tolle
  • James B. Nelson
  • Jeanette Blonigen Clancy
  • Mark Hathaway
  • Parker Palmer
  • Karen Armstrong
  • Alan Lurie
  • Paul Wapner
  • Pamela Greenberg
  • Ilia Delio
  • Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Andrew Harvey
  • Kabir Helminski
  • Beatrice Bruteau
  • Richard Rohr
  • Judy Cannato
  • Anthony de Mello


  • In the Footsteps of Spring
  • Introduction
  • The Light Within
  • Shards of Summer
  • Intimate Soliloquies
  • Coming Out
  • No Stranger Am I


  • The Journal of James Curtis
  • A "Bells and Smells" Kind of Guy
  • A Quiet Visit and an Exhausting Conversation
  • A Journey Begins
  • Carlos
  • My Lunch with a "Medicine Bearer"
  • Father Brandon
  • The Note
  • A Swimmer's First Time
  • Feeling Both Hopeful and Sad


  • The Sufi Path
  • In the Garden of Spirituality: Doris Lessing
  • The Sufi Way
  • Oh, Yeah!
  • A Living Twenty-First Century Tradition
  • Bismillah
  • It Happens All the Time in Heaven
  • Clarity, Hope and Courage
  • As the Last Walls Dissolve . . . Everything is Possible
  • Sufism: A Call to Awaken
  • Rumi and Shams: A Love of Another Kind
  • Never Say It Is Not God
  • In the Garden of Spirituality: Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • "Joined at the Heart": Robert Thompson on Christianity and Sufism
  • Sufism: Way of Love, Tradition of Enlightenment, and Antidote to Fanaticism




  • Film
  • Where Milk Gets It Wrong
  • Pan's Labyrinth: Critiquing the Cult of Unquestioning Obedience
  • Reflections on the Overlooked Children of Men
  • Reflections on Babel and the "Borders Within"
  • Rock of Ages: Theological Reflections on Picnic at Hanging Rock
  • Revisiting a Groovy Jesus (and a Dysfunctional Theology)
  • Alexander's Great Love
  • "This Light Breeze that Loves Me": Theological Reflections on Hamam: The Turkish Bath
  • Dew[y]-Kissed: Reflections on Under the Greenwood Tree
  • Casanova-inspired Reflections on Papal Power at 30,000 Ft.
  • Memoirs of a Survivor: As the Last Walls Dissolve . . . Everything is Possible
  • What the Vatican Can Learn From the X-Men
  • The New Superman: Not Necessarily Gay, But Definitely Queer
  • Wolvie
  • Season of the Witch . . . the Scarlet Witch
  • Christian Draz's Critique of Brokeback Mountain
  • Frank D. Myers' "Long Hard Look" at Brokeback Mountain
  • Thoughts on The Da Vinci Code
  • Reflections on The Da Vinci Code Controversy
  • The Golden Compass: Pointing Beyond Authoritarianism
  • "Come Spirit": Thoughts on Terrence Malick's The New World
  • Colin Covert on Biutiful: "A Work of Extraordinary Vitality"
  • Beatrice Marovich on Divinity and Animality in Life of Pi
  • The Road to Love
  • Solar Brother: Franco Zeffirelli's Brother Sun, Sister Moon
  • Adam Sandel on the Queer Appeal of Harry Potter
  • John Schlesinger's Sunday Bloody Sunday: "A Genuinely Radical Film"
  • Testament of Tortured Youth: Edward Brittain and Geoffrey Thurlow
  • Five Takes on Five Dances
  • Vanessa Redgrave: "Almost a Kind of Jungian Actress"
  • Dirk Bogarde
  • Hans Matheson
  • George Maharis
  • Ian McKellen
  • Deborah Kerr
  • Heath Ledger
  • Neil Patrick Harris
  • Natasha Richardson
  • Lynn Redgrave
  • Zachary Quinto
  • Glenda Jackson


  • Music
  • Kate Bush
  • Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • Maxwell
  • Rosanne Cash
  • Marianne Faithfull
  • Frank Ocean
  • Emmylou Harris
  • Wendy Matthews
  • Jenny Morris
  • Rufus Wainwright
  • Petula Clark
  • Bobbie Gentry
  • Enrique Iglesias
  • Loreena McKennitt
  • Shirley Bassey
  • Maria Callas
  • Fleetwood Mac
  • Engelbert Humperdinck
  • The Church
  • Suede
  • Mavis Staples
  • Judith Durham
  • Kate Ceberano
  • Darren Hayes
  • Pink Floyd
  • Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy
  • Wall of Voodoo
  • Pet Shop Boys
  • Loretta Lynn and Jack White
  • Cass Elliot
  • Tee Set
  • Australian Crawl
  • Helen Reddy
  • Stephen Gately
  • Marty Rhone
  • Lenny Kravitz
  • Yvonne Elliman
  • Enigma
  • Jane Clifton
  • Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson
  • Scissor Sisters
  • Chrissie Amphett
  • Gil Scott-Heron
  • Sam Sparro
  • Jon Stevens
  • The Cruel Sea
  • Dionne Warwick
  • Wanda Jackson
  • Kiki Dee
  • Claude Chalhoub
  • The Banks Brothers and Moby
  • Cat Stevens


  • Dusty
  • Soul Deep
  • Classic Dusty
  • Classic Dusty II
  • Classic Dusty III
  • Classic Dusty IV
  • Classic Dusty V
  • The Sound of Two Decades Colliding
  • Yeah, Baby, Yeah!
  • Remembering a Great Soul Singer
  • Shelby Lynne Celebrates Dusty Springfield
  • Time and the River
  • Something In Your Eyes
  • Remembering Dusty
  • Remembering Dusty, Fourteen Years On
  • The Other "Born This Way"
  • Dusty Springfield: "Wasn't Born to Follow"
  • Wishing Him Love
  • Heat Wave
  • Dusty Springfield: Queer Icon
  • Celebrating Dusty


  • Culture (Pop and Otherwise)
  • What the Vatican Can Learn From the X-Men
  • The New Superman: Not Necessarily Gay, But Definitely Queer
  • Wolvie
  • Blast from the Past: The Return of Doctor Who's Sarah Jane Smith
  • What Sarah Jane Did Next
  • She's So Lovely
  • Impossible! . . . It Can't Be!
  • She's Back!
  • Too Good to Miss
  • The Adventures Continue
  • Remembering Elisabeth Sladen
  • Mourning Lis, Farewelling Sarah Jane
  • A Fresh Take on Masculinity
  • Ian Thorpe's "Difficult Decision"
  • What a Man!
  • London Calling
  • At Swim, Two Boys: A Beautiful Novel
  • Don Gorton on the Significance of Maurice
  • E.M. Forster's "Elusive Ideal"
  • Those Europeans are at it Again!
  • Blood, Sex, Magic: Welcome to the World of True Blood
  • This Bites!
  • Halloween Thoughts
  • Halloween Hijinks
  • Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake
  • The Dancer and the Dance







  • Creating Safe Environments for LGBT Students: A Catholic Schools Perspective by Michael J. Bayly (Haworth Press, 2007).

    (For reviews, click here, here, and here.)



    On September 24, 2012, Michael Bayly of Catholics for Marriage Equality MN was interviewed by Suzanne Linton of Our World Today about same-sex relationships and why Catholics can vote 'no' on the proposed Minnesota anti-marriage equality amendment.

    To watch this interview, click here.

    Updates
    Proposed Anti-Marriage Equality Amendment Defeated (11/7/12)

    Marriage Equality Comes to Minnesota (5/13/13)

    Honoring the Catholic Role in Achieving Marriage Equality in Minnesota (7/24/13)

    On the First Anniversary of Marriage Equality in Minnesota, a Celebratory Look Back at the Important Role Played by Catholics (5/14/14)



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