The Wild Reed

See also the previous Wild Reed posts: O Sacred Season of Autumn An Autumn Walk Along Minnehaha Creek Image: Michael J. Bayly.

May God bless you with a restless discomfort about easy answers, half-truths and superficial relationships, so that you may seek truth bol...

Last May, just hours after the Minnesota House of Representatives voted 70-62 to place the ' marriage amendment ' on the November 2...

Earlier today my friend Brian and I walked along that part of Minnehaha Creek close to my home in South Minneapolis. As you'll see from...

. . . Religious extremists have long claimed that the acceptance of homosexuality would bring down the fundamentalist church – and they have...

For National Coming Out Day today I share the following excerpt from the book Tender Fires: The Spiritual Promise of Sexuality by Fran Fe...

Image: Michael J. Bayly.

. . . Those who possess a sacramental view of the world often realize that any human person or relationship that brings love, mercy, forgive...

Today is the feast of Saints Sergius and Bacchus , and over at the always impressive Jesus in Love Blog Kittredge Cherry has posted an inf...

I'm currently reading Phillip Gowans' Practical Sufism: A Guide to the Spiritual Path , and the following excerpt from it reminds ...

With today being Solidarity Sunday * I share the following as The Wild Reed 's Prayer of the Week. Solidarity Prayer God, You are t...

On this day in 1998, Matthew Shepard was abducted and tortured near Laramie, Wyoming. He would die from his injuries five days later on Oc...

Chris Kluwe, Minnesota Viking punter and outspoken (straight) supporter of marriage equality, is the subject of Out magazine's October...

The following is excerpted from Following Francis: The Franciscan Way for Everyone by Susan Pickford. It seems appropriate to share given t...

The photos that comprise this post were taken in and around South Minneapolis over the last week or so. They are accompanied by a beautiful...

“Man, you really like the old warhorses!”, a friend once remarked as he flipped through my CD collection. He was referring to the female vo...