# Roundup: United Methodist changes, Christian homelands, unhappiness, Leila Wilson

> Leila Wilson did not have a particularly settled start in life … Through it all, however, she retained an intense religious faith and lived to the full the partnership with her husband, Ronald Wilson.

10 August 2012 · News

Canonical: https://insights1.uca.org.au/articles/roundup-united-methodist-changes-christian-homelands-unhappiness-leila-wilson/

## [Wife and rock of High Court judge](https://www.smh.com.au/national/obituaries/wife-and-rock-of-high-court-judge-20120809-23wu0.html)

Leila Wilson did not have a particularly settled start in life … Through it all, however, she retained an intense religious faith and lived to the full the partnership with her husband, Ronald Wilson.

## [Church, like therapy, is a space where you are allowed to bring your distress](https://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/03/church-space-to-bring-your-distress?)

We must not be scared of unhappiness as a feature of a meaningful life – it forms part of the recipe for happiness itself.

## [Christianity is slowly dying in its homelands](https://www.utsalumni.org/news/christianity-is-slowly-dying-in-its-homelands-4685/)

As in 1980s Afghanistan, a joint operation between the CIA and Saudi intelligence could end up bringing to power a hard-line salafist replacement to a brutally flawed but nonetheless secular regime. If that happens in Syria, the final death of Christianity in its Middle Eastern homelands seems increasingly possible within our lifetime.

## [The United Methodist Church is changing](https://www.umc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content3.aspx?c=lwL4KnN1LtH&b=5259669&ct=12094375)

Shrinking boards of directors — in some cases, to tiny proportions — are requiring adjustments in governance and representation for the denomination’s agencies and commissions. Budget constraints dictate a streamlining of priorities and realignment of staffing needs.