# Roundup: Australian Methodism, Protestant shambles, Marilynne Robinson, The Tree of Life, Revelation, forced adoption, Vatican archives

> Wesley Mission held a prayer gathering to celebrate 200 years of Methodism in Australia.

1 March 2012 · News

Canonical: https://insights1.uca.org.au/articles/roundup-australian-methodism-protestant-shambles-marilynne-robinson-the-tree-of-life-revelation-forced-adoption-vatican-archives/

## [Methodism in Australia](https://www.insights.uca.org.au/news/thanksgiving-on-200th-anniversary-of-methodism-in-australia)

Wesley Mission held a prayer gathering to celebrate 200 years of Methodism in Australia.

## [Mainline Protestantism a shambles?](https://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/5735/mainline_protestantism_a_shambles_tell_us_something_we_haven%E2%80%99t_heard/)

Tell us something we haven’t heard.

## [West Toward Home](https://www.bookforum.com/inprint/018_05/8874)

Tracking Marilynne Robinson’s intellectual pilgrimage.

## [‘The Tree of Life’ is really about …](https://www.mennoweekly.org/blog/2012/2/27/what-tree-life-really-about/)

The only way to be happy is to love. Unless you love, your life will flash by.

## [The Big Reveal](https://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2012/03/05/120305crbo_books_gopnik?currentPage=all)

Why does the Bible end that way?

## [Uniting Church says sorry over forced adoptions](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-28/uniting-church-says-sorry-over-forced-adoptions/3857056/?site=melbourne)

The Uniting Church in Victoria and Tasmania has apologised to families that were separated through forced adoptions which lasted until the 1970s.

## [Vatican secret archives](https://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2012/02/29/vatican-secret-archives-show-galileo-signature-henry-viii-letter-templar-scroll/)

“The aim is to physically show the sources of history, and make available the documents that have created history in Europe, and not only Europe.”