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

Saturday, December 21, 2024

Honoring the Inner Light of the Soul

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See also the previous Wild Reed posts: • Winter Solstice Blessing • Solstice Eve: Honoring the Darkness While Remembering the Light • B...
Friday, December 20, 2024

Progressive Perspectives on This Moment of Class Consciousness

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– Luigi Mangione on December 10, 2024. (Photo: Benjamin B. Braun | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP) L uigi Mangione’s violent act agains...
Wednesday, December 18, 2024

International Migrants Day

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Today is International Migrants Day , a day designated by the United Nations in 1990 to annually recognize the plight of migrants worldwide...
Monday, December 16, 2024

Held in the Presence of God

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– Artwork: Niki Bowers This Advent I’m reading Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee ’s book Sufism: The Transformation of the Heart . Perhaps for some...
Sunday, December 15, 2024

Neoliberalism vs Neofascism

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Cornel West on the state of U.S. politics Author, scholar, and former independent presidential candidate Cornel West was recently a guest ...
Saturday, December 14, 2024

Advent Questions for These Times of Challenge and Change

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This past Thursday, December 12, I shared a reflection at the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet ’s monthly “Signs of the Times” prayer se...
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Thursday, December 12, 2024

Inayat Khan and the Heart of Sufism

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My exploration of – and walking on – the mystical path known as the Sufi Way continues. Today I not only share an essential writing by th...
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Let Someone Love You . . .

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. . . just the way you are. L et someone love you just the way you are – as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel...
Monday, December 09, 2024

Quote of the Day

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A s another country falls to Islamist forces , we should remember that Islamist terrorism was sourced by one main thing: the United States ...

Interiors

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See also the previous Wild Reed posts: • November Vignettes • October Vignettes • Saaxiib Qurux Badan – October 12, 2024 • S...
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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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