The Wild Reed

I have to say that I’d be all for journalist, media critic, activist, and author Norman Solomon being President Joe Biden’s ghost writer! ...

“We are not on earth to guard a museum, but to cultivate a flowering garden of life.” – Pope John XXIII The Wild Reed ’s series of ref...

[ S peaker of the House] Kevin McCarthy using the debt ceiling to try to hold the government hostage is particularly galling. Rather tha...

See also the previous Wild Reed posts: • Spring . . . Within and Beyond (2022) • Spring . . . Within and Beyond (2021) Image: Michael...

A nother place. Another killer. Another scene of mass death. Another example of the horror in which we live. Each mass shooting has its ow...

See also the previous Wild Reed posts: • I Knew It! • Photo of the Day – March 23, 2011 • Out and About – March 2011 • Out and About –...

Barbara Anne Kozee is a queer Roman Catholic and a doctoral student in Theological Ethics at Boston College. Her research focuses on sexua...

Ed Simon , executive director of Belt Media Collaborative and the editor-in-chief for Belt Magazine , has written a fascinating piece for ...

T he announced “end” of the public-health emergency doesn’t mean the COVID-19 pandemic is really over. Thousands of people are still dying f...

A s Beltane comes, roughly translated as “bright fire,” the fire within all is growing – the fire of vitality, passion, action, growth and...

See also the previous Wild Reed posts: • April Vignettes • Waiting in Repose for Spring’s Awakening Kiss • Spring . . . Within and Beyo...

Just as a spinning dancer must keep returning his eyes to a given point to maintain his balance, so you must keep returning your focus to...

If, like me, you’ve ever donated to a Democratic candidate then you no doubt received at least three text messages on your phone today – on...