The Wild Reed

Thoughts & interests of a queer seeker of the Divine Presence;
of a “soul dancer,” seeking to embody with grace and verve
the mystico-prophetic spiritual tradition

Monday, November 14, 2022

Photo of the Day

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Related Off-site Link: Widespread Light Snow Monday; Colder Late in the Week – Bill Endersen ( MPR News , November 14, 2022). See also ...
Saturday, November 12, 2022

Brigit Anna McNeill on Hearing the Wild and Natural Call to Go Inwards

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O ur modern western culture has grown to value spring energy above all else – forever young, forever upward, forever producing, forever shi...
Friday, November 11, 2022

Progressive Perspectives on the U.S. Midterm Election Results

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A number of writers over at Jacobin , including David Sirota ( right ), have jointly written a piece that highlights “8 lessons from the m...
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Tuesday, November 08, 2022

“It’s Simple . . . Vote For the People You Love”

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I f you love someone who is gay or black or Jewish or an immigrant, or if you love someone who is elderly or sick or if you love children a...
Monday, November 07, 2022

Autumnal Thoughts and Visions

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T he material world is literally the substance and being of God. Every nanosecond, divinity births the world from its own essence, incarnat...
Sunday, November 06, 2022

Phyllis Bennis On the Need For a Ceasefire in Ukraine

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I always appreciate the informed perspective of Phyllis Bennis – author, scholar, and director of the New Internationalism Project at the ...
Saturday, November 05, 2022

Out and About – Summer 2022

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I half-jokingly refer to the summer just past as “my summer that wasn’t”. This is because for much of it I was hampered in my movements and...
Friday, November 04, 2022

Marianne Williamson on the Current Condition of the U.S.

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We have a critical mass of people who realize that the same-old same-old won’t fix [the crisis we’re in], who realize that the neoliberal s...
Tuesday, November 01, 2022

The End Is Not the End

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. . . It’s just a beginning. What many consider to be the Celtic New Year takes place this evening. It’s a turning that has its roots in...
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Michael J. Bayly
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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