Remember The Future

The award-nominated stories in this collection will bring memories of the future fl ooding back. Two new stories and all-new afterwords enliven the past with a touch of the present and that which is yet to come. You don't need a collection of antique spaceships or a carefully calibrated time machine to share the memories of the final Holocaust survivor. You don't have to jump through the gate between universes in search of a lost friend. All you have to do is open your eyes. You'll remember the future. The future remembers you.

Explore together how congregations can change to become more fruitful for the purposes of Christ. Remember the Future: Praying for the Church and Change prepares leaders of congregations and conferences for courageous new conversations with readings that draw us toward renewed vision, cultivate hope and keep us attentive to the mission of Christ. Read together as leadership teams, boards and covenant groups to understand more clearly the “why” of congregational ministry and the internal resistances and external challenges to the mission of the church.

A roadmap for church leaders to break the model of “managing” their parish to setting a foundation for growth and hope. This practical, no-nonsense guide challenges church leaders to get out of “survival mode” and start imagining—and living out—a future filled with growth and hope. In his years of work with congregations in the Episcopal Diocese of New York, Gerald Keucher discovered that the shrinkage in numbers in many congregations of mainline churches “has deeply affected the psyches of those who lead our congregations. In many cases, they’ve been ‘managing decline’ for so long that they’ve forgotten to look to the future.” Keucher outlines a method for sound leadership and asset management in clear, easy-to-follow chapters.

Three protagonists face existential threats across time, space and continents—Showana (5,500 B.C.), Marla (2008 C.E.) and the Undercover Mother who takes down a bad-boy billionaire (Ten Years from Now). Bravely leading against murderous invaders, discovering secret powers, engaging animal allies, resolving affairs of the heart, protecting family members, exploring spiritual practices and battling climate disruption, Showana, Marla and the Undercover Mother traverse mythical lands as well as twenty-first century Los Angeles, Coastal Texas, Tahiti and New Zealand. They'll rock your world and inspire your vision. Author of this standalone short story, JJ Sprowl (jjsprowl.com, fiction pen name for JR Sproull), attended FSU (B.A.), UVa Law (J.D.) and CSU ("Sac State") for project management, as well as independent theological studies for non-denominational credentials. People along the way taught the richest lessons. In that spirit, join in for Remember the Future's visionary saga of all of us alone in this together.

"Remember the Future" is a candid and insightful guide for the average person to find their own success by identifying and maneuvering through the mental obstacles of everyday life. The author hopes to show the reader through vicarious examples that hope is never lost in this often negative and difficult world we live in. The philosophy of "Remember the Future" is timeless advice for anyone trying to return lost confidence in one's self or even to help someone find their confidence for the first time in their lives. He also wants the reader to know that by having spiritual beliefs, initiative, and commitment within yourself, success and achievement are "only one positive thought away."

Antony Gordon initially views the wormhole in his cellar as a mere curiosity, but in stepping through it into 1963, soon discovers that his past, future and present have been thrown into a juicer and blended into something quite extraordinary.

Shares with us some musical experiences that 'invite us to revise or suspend our relation with the past and to rediscover it as part of a future trajectory'. This title provides insights on Luciano Berio's own compositions. It explores themes, such as transcription and translation, poetics and analysis, 'open work', and music theatre.