The Wild Reed

Image: "Oscar" by Michael J. Bayly (Christmas Eve, 2011).

This is how a Cardinal of the Church chooses to usher in the season of peace, the celebration of Jesus' birth? This is the action of a p...

The Wild Reed 's Advent 2011 series concludes with a second excerpt from Cynthia Bourgeault's 2008 book The Wisdom Jesus: Transform...

No, I'm not writing from Australia – although this time last year I was back in the Great South Land with my family for Christmas (see...

I recently watched the 2010 film Atonement , and found myself once again quite moved by the phenomenally gifted Vanessa Redgrave – and she...

The older I get, the more I consider Advent, not so much as a time of waiting to celebrate the birth of the historical Jesus, but as a time ...

. Part 2: April – June 2011 Following is a further selection of 2011 Wild Reed posts, the putting together of which I found particularly me...

I'm not sure that I feel comfortable with this matter of being called a Christian in the light of all that Christianity has identified i...

Today is the anniversary of the death of Sufi poet and mystic Jelaluddin Rumi (September 30, 1207 – December 17, 1273). As Fahad Faruqu...

[Christopher] Hitchens prided himself on his diversity of political opinions, his unwillingness to become another man in anyone's rank a...

The Wild Reed 's Advent 2011 series continues with an excerpt from Cynthia Bourgeault 's 2008 book The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming ...

. Part 1: January – March 2011 O f the many Wild Reed postings of this year, the ones I begin listing today are those that, for one reason ...

To be perfectly honest, I'm not completely sure who wrote the following excerpt, one that I found on a torn-out page from a book while g...