In my free time I've been taking pictures for my sister's new online shop.

http://brightaprildays.etsy.com

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Please visit my sister's on-line shop where she sells the Japanese handy crafts she makes.

The Pink Peony

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Week Fourteen:
According to the “World Christian Encyclopedia,” in 1900 49.9% of all Christians lived in Europe, by 1985 it was approximately 27.2%.  In 1900 81.1% of all Christians were white.  By 2000 approximately 39.8% were.

This officially ends my history facts.

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Week Twelve
Churches participated in the “red scare,” of the 1920s, that swept through America.  Supposed communists and subversive people were rounded up and charged with crimes against their country.  When convicted, they were forced to leave the country.  The famous evangelist Billy Sunday felt the deportation was to soft a punishment and suggested they face a firing squad instead.
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Week Eleven

Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism, met an untimely end when a mob killed him while he was a candidate for the U.S. Presidency.

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Week Ten
King James I of England was the son of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland.  He was King James VI of Scotland before inheriting the throne of England from Elizabeth.  His mother was a Catholic.  His predecessor, Queen Elizabeth of England, was a religious moderate who allowed both Catholics and Protestant Calvinists freedom of worship.  King James was a homosexual, frivolous, and self-absorbed.  He attempted to continue religious moderation but conflicts between the sides broke out.  The king called a conference because of the problems, but no common ground was found, and the only achievement of the conference was the commission of a new translation of the Bible known as the 1611 King James Version.   

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Week Nine
Prince Philip of Hesse was a committed Protestant of the Reformation period.  Unfortunately his marriage was poor and he had not had a marital relationship with his wife for many years.  As a result he fell into illicit affairs that plagued his conscience.  In his state of trouble he requested council from Protestant theologians; Luther, Melanchthon, and Bucer.  They agreed that the Bible did not forbid polygamy and that it would be okay for Prince Philip to take a second wife while keeping the first also.  

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Week Eight

Pope Leo X (1513-1521) wanted to finish building Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome.  To finance the building he allowed the massive selling of indulgences that sparked the reformation of the 16th century.  The basilica that became the largest church and pride of Roman Catholicism was a cause of the Protestant Reformation.

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Stephen Langton (ca. 1155-1228), who was the Archbishop of Canterbury, was a believer in spiritual interpretation of the Bible.  Therefore, by his method, in the Book of Ruth; the field is the Bible, Ruth represents students, and the reapers are the teachers.  Langton is responsible for dividing the Latin Vulgate Bible into chapters.

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