Lightning From The East

Lightning from the East uncovers the teachings and activities of Chinese Protestant-related new religious movements such as the Church of Almighty God, how Chinese authorities and Christians have responded to them, and how they fit with Chinese religion and global Christianity.

This publication has been Re-edited and Re-adapted as a follow up to the 2005 Groundbreaking publication: "The Man of Many Faces: PT. 1 & 2: Uncovering the Truth about Dr. Malachi Z. York" by Yovan Christenson. In light of the ongoing events surrounding the imprisoned Nuwaubian leader Dr. Malachi. Z. York's as well as the Continued campaign of Slander, Misinformation and Character Assassination against him, such as the recent Slanderous and Historically inaccurate; People Magazine Investigates, Documentary; Cults: Season 1 Episode 6 entitled: "The Nuwaubian Nation of Moors", aired on Discovery Channel, July 06, 2018. Additionally the new controversies surrounding the True identity of Afroo Oonoo and the scandal of Afrika Bambaataa's Homosexual allegations, have compelled us, as the Co-authors and Contributors of "The Man of Many Faces" book, to Revise, Re-examine the true history and life of Malachi York from a much deeper biographical perspective in order to once and for all set the Record Straight.

We live in that final time which offers humans the clearest choice in history: the kingdom or the holocaust, Jim Douglass writes. Either end is a lightning east to west: the nuclear holocaust a lightning fire, the kingdom of Reality a lightning spirit. We will choose lightning east to west today as either nuclear fire or the kingdom of God, as either despair and annihilation or transformation through nonviolence. If we look to Jesus and Gandhi, and what they point to, we can hope to choose the lightning fire of nonviolence.

This "utterly spectacular" book weighs the impact modern medical technology has had on the author's life against the social and environmental costs inevitably incurred by the mining that makes such innovation possible (Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises). What if a lifesaving medical device causes loss of life along its supply chain? That's the question Katherine E. Standefer finds herself asking one night after being suddenly shocked by her implanted cardiac defibrillator. In this gripping, intimate memoir about health, illness, and the invisible reverberating effects of our medical system, Standefer recounts the astonishing true story of the rare diagnosis that upended her rugged life in the mountains of Wyoming and sent her tumbling into a fraught maze of cardiology units, dramatic surgeries, and slow, painful recoveries. As her life increasingly comes to revolve around the internal defibrillator freshly wired into her heart, she becomes consumed with questions about the supply chain that allows such an ostensibly miraculous device to exist. So she sets out to trace its materials back to their roots. From the sterile labs of a medical device manufacturer in southern California to the tantalum and tin mines seized by armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to a nickel and cobalt mine carved out of endemic Madagascar jungle, Lightning Flowers takes us on a global reckoning with the social and environmental costs of a technology that promises to be lifesaving but is, in fact, much more complicated. Deeply personal and sharply reported, Lightning Flowers takes a hard look at technological mythos, healthcare, and our cultural relationship to medical technology, raising important questions about our obligations to one another, and the cost of saving one life.