# Roundup: Wesley Mission, simply living, Patti Smith, Episcopal controversies, Beasts of the Southern Wild

> The Wesley Mission is celebrating the 200th anniversary in Australia of its its founding organisation – the Methodist Church.

19 July 2012 · News

Canonical: https://insights1.uca.org.au/articles/roundup-wesley-mission-simply-living-patti-smith-episcopal-controversies-beasts-of-the-southern-wild/

## [**Wesley Mission celebrates milestone**](https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/2256556413)

The Wesley Mission is celebrating the 200th anniversary in Australia of its its founding organisation – the Methodist Church.

## [**Inner work**](https://www.thelutheran.org/article/article.cfm?article_id=10852)

This “living simple” thing requires what some folks call “inner work”. As I look at the simple livers I’ve known over time, it seems that they share some similar ways of thinking.

## [‘With a brush and an eye full of light’](https://sojo.net/blogs/2012/07/17/brush-and-eye-full-light-patti-smiths-spiritual-exploration/)

Patti Smith’s spiritual exploration.

## [The Episcopal Church ‘takes a flying leap’ into controversies old and new](https://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/atheologies/6189/the_episcopal_church_%E2%80%98takes_a_flying_leap%E2%80%99_into_controversies_old_and_new_%C2%A0/)

It’s messy stuff, apparently, this sorting out of how to be a human community in relationship to God and all of creation.

## [Something so broken](https://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/culture/6163/something_so_broken%3A_what%E2%80%99s_frightening_about_beasts_of_the_southern_wild_%C2%A0_/)

*Beasts of the Southern Wild* is a kind of folktale that addresses incredibly key issues about how you should live and what the right thing to do is.