The Wild Reed

. It's been almost a month now since the U.S. Supreme Court's June 26, 2015 decision ( Obergefell v. Hodges ) that upheld the co...

T here is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one o...

See also the previous Wild Reed posts: • Summer Blooms • Photo of the Day – September 10, 2014 Image: Michael J. Bayly.

C hristianity has an ugly history of promoting one human’s race, gender or sexual orientation as superior to that of another. People who h...

See also the previous Wild Reed posts: • Summer Blooms (2014) • Photo of the Day – August 26, 2014 • In Summer Light • Photo ...

. The Wild Reed 's 2015 Queer Appreciation series continues with excerpts from an interview with Clyde Hall, a member of the Shoshon...

Image: Michael J. Bayly.

S ome people have tried to find some underlying character flaw or theological misunderstanding in me that explains my acceptance of the fac...

Images: Michael J. Bayly.

J uly 4 has always been a time for aggrieved progressives to remind the world that most Americans weren’t liberated on that first Independen...

I recently completed a condo- and cat-sitting gig for friends who live in what's known as the Mill City area of Minneapolis. Located ...