The Wild Reed

. . . On Christmas Eve, my devoutly Catholic sister attended mass with her husband and three children. They literally bowed to something big...

. Part 2: April – June 2012 Following is a further selection of 2012 Wild Reed posts, the putting together of which I found particularl...

Related Off-site Links: Jesus the Jew, Jesus the Palestinian – Omid Safi ( Religion News Service , December 24, 2012). Jesus Was a Pale...

. Back in 2010, author Anne Rice wrote a " Christmas confession " in response to comic, actor and filmmaker Ricky Gervais' ...

. Part 1: January – March 2012 Of the many Wild Reed postings of this year, the ones I begin listing today are those that, for one reas...

Image: Michael J. Bayly.

. We need to recognize that our own military interventions are killing children the world over who are as innocent as the kids in Connectic...

This past weekend the Catholic Church celebrated Gaudete Sunday – the Third Sunday of Advent. I attended liturgy at Spirit of St. Stephen...

. . . W e can’t ignore the deeper social crisis, one that goes beyond gun control. In almost every instance, such spree killings, whether ...

Related Off-site Links: Man Shoots 26 at Connecticut Elementary School, Including 20 Children – John Christoffersen (Associated Press v...

C ourage, the “ministry” that Paul Scalia [son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia ] was affiliated with, uses a 12-step program s...

This past Sunday, December 9, saw the season's first winter storm dump around 11 inches of snow on the metro area of the Twin Cities. I...

I was about to post photos of Sunday's first winter storm here in Minnesota when I realized I still had this "Out and About – Autum...