Showing results for "prophecies" in Biographies & Memoirs

After her first week teaching at a boarding school on the Navajo Reservation near Canyon de Chelly, young Erica Elliott almost leaves in despair, unable to communicate with the children or understand cultural cues. But once she starts learning the Navajo language, the people begin to trust her, taking her into their homes and ceremonies. As she is drawn deeper into Navajo life, Erica has a series of profound experiences with the people, animals, and spirits of Canyon de Chelly. Fulfilling a Navajo grandmother’s prophecy, she returns years later as a medical doctor.

In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled—and what if that's not a bad thing? And what if disability justice and disabled wisdom are crucial to creating a future in which it's possible to survive fascism, climate change, and pandemics and to bring about liberation?

This story of a real-life Indiana Jones of the 1950s named John Keel contains everything but a trip to Venus in a flying saucer - a subject our newsman/explorer would become famous for a decade later. In Egypt, the fearless Keel was cursed by a mummy and befriended members of a strange snake-charming cult. In Iraq, he played Russian roulette with a notorious desert bandit and lived among the Yezidi devil-worshippers. Later, in India, he was buried alive and discovered the secret of the Indian rope trick, which he then performed for incredulous reporters in New Delhi.

For centuries, one man’s predictions of doom, disaster, and destiny have captivated the world. Nostradamus, who has become a legend, inscribed cryptic verses shrouded in mystery, interpreted across the ages that may have all come true: wars, sieges, the fall of nations, the collapse of Europe, the rise of AI, apocalyptic floods, firestorms, and the rise of a third Antichrist who would bring about World War III. Are these the final days of humanity, or can we change our fate?

A feat of narrative reporting that grapples with familial understanding and conflict, and a parable for understanding the country’s current division, and how we got here—a gripping and powerfully relevant story for our moment. Meet the Joyners: a Southern family that reflects the schism at...

When a military coup in Ghana leads to the abrupt closure of Lally Pia's medical school, she is stranded thousands of miles away from her family - and left with no educational prospects, no money, and a botched American Green Card. But a Sri Lankan priest told Lally's father that she will one day become a "Doctor of Doctors" - a laughable outcome, given her current predicament.

In the vein of Educated and Hillbilly Elegy comes a young woman’s memoir chronicling her harrowing journey from despair to salvation that showcases the depths and resilience of the human spirit and empowers readers on their own paths toward healing, forgiveness, and redemption. Carrie...

A South African mother unknowingly begins recording her spiritual awakening—unfiltered, unscripted, and under spiritual attack. But what begins as a diary becomes a transmission. What begins as survival becomes soul leadership. What if the next spiritual phenomenon wasn’t scripted, staged, or polished—but instead came from a woman with no media plan, no mentor, and no explanation—only a phone camera, a breaking point, and a divine appointment? Meet Maxine Swart Berrangé. In 2021, she picked up her phone and started recording what she called “Day One.” She didn’t know why—but ...

All of us dream. It's our body's way of resting after our day. But what has surprised me is that I have dreams that are prophecy dreams. These are dreams that tell me my future. All of these prophecy dreams have been identified as such by the Spirit. The Spirit is that entity from the presence of God that communicates God's will for us. I've never known how they will come to pass, but as the time for fulfillment draws near I marvel as I watch it unfold.

También conocido como Zoroastro, abordaremos la vida de este mítico profeta fundador del legendario mazdeísmo (o zoroastrismo), una religión monoteísta aunque de marco dualista, que creó el libro sacro Avesta.