how to make me happy…
Arcade Fire in a lift.
Clip #41.1 its about 3 mins in/
[am technologically retarded so don't know how to put the link in as a picture to click]
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headspacebecky
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josh peters
How to make me momentarily happy:
One part Elliot Smith’s musical genius, one part re-enactment of a scene from The Royal Tenenbaums, and finally a dash of my childhood. -
petebrierley
We spend most of our time in meetings, or at a computer… Jesus spent most of his time eating. I often wonder if he was perhaps a little bit fatter than we have traditionally thought. Anyway following in the footsteps of Jesus we have decided that headspace will have hospitality month. This means that you need to be hospitable. How’s it gonna work?
1. Organically: make an extra effort this month to have people over. You can have a meal, share a party, get people to come to your art exhibition (Abi Spedlove), buy someone a coffee. Just hang out!
2. Less organically: We have a list of events that you can sign up to. If you want to go to one get in touch with the person who is running it. The list will go up on the blog, on facebook, and @ church.co.uk on the notice board. I would also encourage you to read Meal Time Habits of the Messiah by Conrad Gempf. Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die.
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tamsin kendrick
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article3848081.ece
I really urge you to read this article, it’s really interesting, it made me cry, but then again I’ve been in that mood for the last couple of weeks. It just goes to show how love can transform even the most desperate of places. I know, that was corny. But just because it’s corny, doesn’t mean it’s not TRUE! x
Death Row Rodeo: the Louisiana prison miracle
Through rodeos and rehabilitation, Burl Cain has transformed America’s most violent maximum security prison into its safest. -
joncoe
This is (one of) the recurrent question(s) of a society which, like it or not, is moving towards a postmodern way of thinking. What is? No not that. Rather, how can every point of view be acceptable, and equally valid, when some assert the suppression of others? (More …)
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hester1
So…Grand Theft Auto 4, it’s tipped to break gaming sales records, it’s had record breaking reviews from those who’ve given it a test drive, the graphics are apparently unimaginably good, it’s more violent and depraved than ever before. Is anyone else guiltily intrigued (and I’m not even interested in computer games as a rule)?
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nick
The Divine Lorraine Hotel.
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helenclara
This is a bit of an announcement so sorry for using the blog… in the run up to an evening on Justice at Headspace this Sunday…
Amnesty International has helped save thousands of lives by stopping torture, preventing executions and protecting human rights defenders. One way they do this is by mobilizing members and supporters to put pressure on governments, armed groups, companies and intergovernmental bodies. Last year Headspace added its voice to a number of cases where action was needed as we sent letters of appeal relating to 14 different cases of injustice around the world.
The good news is that there have been positive outcomes for two of them Alhamdulillah! See details below.
Amnesty’s appeals for action are listed on their website (www.amnesty.org) and are a direct way to add your voice to the call for justice in hundreds of situations around the world – and they work.
Would we as a community like to do more of this? Would people like to focus on one appeal, or a small number of individuals and both lobby their oppressor and extend support to them as individuals? Is there a situation that we are already connected with that we could get more involved with?
Your + thoughts = welcome.
ROYAL PARDON FOR MOROCCAN DEMONSTRATORS
11 April 2008
Eight members of the Moroccan Association for Human Rights, convicted of undermining the monarchy in Morocco last year have been released after they were pardoned by the King on Friday, 4 April. Nine others facing judicial proceedings based on the same charges also benefited from the Royal pardon. Amnesty International, who adopted the men as prisoners of conscience, imprisoned solely for peacefully exercising their rights, welcomed their release.
HUNGARY TO INTRODUCE PROTOCOL FOR RAPE VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS
26 December 2007
Representatives of the Government of Hungary met with non-governmental organizations, including Amnesty International, on 5 December 2007 to discuss the introduction of a protocol for survivors of sexual violence in the home. The protocol will govern how the victim is treated by all services she comes into contact with from when she reports the crime. While the process is in its early stages, Amnesty International welcomes the fact that this issue now features on the political agenda in Hungary and the commitment of all involved to provide proper protection for victims of rape in the home.
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joncoe
I’ve always had my doubts about church.co.uk as a name for a church. But now I’m beginning to have second thoughts about the name Headspace. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headspace . As far as I know, there is no connection. I hope not anyway.
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headspacebecky
There is a live debate tonight, discussing ”Is religion a threat to rationality and science?” http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,2275308,00.html being held between Sir Robert Winston and Prof Daniel Dennett - its being podcasted. A couple of choice quotes from both sides of the table: “Religion may make many people better, but it is preventing them from being as good as they could be”. “Both religion and science are expressions of man’s uncertainty. Perhaps the paradox is that certainty, whether it be in science or religion, is dangerous.”
I studied physics, which I guess was supposed to make be better equipped to grapple with this debate…I always found it interesting that people I talked to either wanted to seperate rationality and religion as far apart as they could possibly go, or to look at them as inextricably linked. I think I fall on the latter, so never had much problem reconciling my religion with my subject- maybe its easier with Physics as so many concepts stem from theory? As to whether people would be ‘better’ without religion, I don’t know.
Anyone else have musings on the metaphysical?
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hester1
Heard this documentary on Radio 4 last Friday and thought that it made for some very interesting (if a little disconcerting) listening. These kids are something else! You can only access ‘listen again’ for up to a week so if you want to listen to it you’ll need to do so by this Friday. Follow this link:
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nick
This is an abandoned prison in Philly. Al Capone stayed here for a while.
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jon heslop
The oldest living thing in the world is a tree in norway. Get ready:
It’s 9950 years old!
Thats amazing.
To put that into perspective read this.
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rich w
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tamsin kendrick
And I’m really looking forward to reading your responses. If, for example, someone was writing a book about theology in the emerging church, or maybe just a sort of post-modern mish-mash which would look at several different issues in a new light, what would you want to see addressed, and more importantly at what angle. Sex? Trinity? Worship? Drugs? The olympic games? Why all mention and history of James Blunt should be erased from our society? However broad or anally specific, I wanna know!
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hester1
Thames Water Melon
And there we see it, the boy and I,
as we sit on a sight-seeing tour boat.
We see the sight of a watermelon
drifting a-bob, current carried in the chilly water.
It is wandering straight down the middle like a
tourist from much warmer climbs who
(enthralled by all that architecture)
doesn’t know the rule about staying on the left.
London’s steely eye stares down at us,
the boy, the melon, the river and I.
We stare back.
As the boy and I head west up river, the melon
heads east in the direction of the sea and the beautiful
city stands proudly to attention to the north and south.
And beneath us, beneath the boy, the boat, the melon and I
lies the murk and the muck.
The treasure trove that is the river bed,
lined with litter, secrets, dark things and the bones of the dead.
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jon heslop
Check this video out if you have a spare 17 minutes. This guy is awesome.
It’s about building a fully sustainable society.
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nick
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jon heslop
Dear God, is a brand new site bought to by the same people who made cool hunter. It’s in a similar vein to post secret.
In their own words it is “a startlingly new concept of spirituality where people from all over the planet reveal their innermost hopes and fears in the form of prayers to god.”
An interesting read.
And very nice site design too.
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tamsin kendrick
The book of revelation (21v16) describes the size of heaven as a cube 12,000 furlongs on a side. This is a little less than 500,000,000,000,000,000,000 cubic feet. Even allowing that the Heavenly Host and other essential services take up at least two thirds of this space, this still leaves about one million cubic feet of space for each human occupant, even if we assume that the human race eventually totals a thousand times the number of humans alive up until now. Sounds like my prospects are better than I thought.
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josh peters
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tamsin kendrick
I love the theologian Paul Tillich so much that if he gave me a little grope, I really, really wouldn’t mind, here are some choice quotes which show him off to the unintiated.
Boredom is rage spread thin.
Paul TillichLanguage… has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.
Paul TillichMan’s ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.
Paul TillichNeurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
Paul TillichReligion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.
Paul TillichWe can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.
Paul Tillich -
headspacebecky
what a beautiful morning to walk to work. reminded me of this poem by G M Hopkins
Glory be to God for dappled things–
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced–fold, fallow, and plough;
And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise Him. -
jon heslop
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tamsin kendrick
This is for Hester, who needs to develop a similar superpower regarding traffic.
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jon heslop
A totally sick performance of Bangers & Mash by Radiohead in Nigel Godrich’s basement.
Thom Yorke plays drums too. Awesome.
UPDATE 08/04/08 01:32 — Pitchfork’s site has gone down so the above link isn’t working luckily people have been quick enough to put the video on youtube.
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nick
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hester1
So I’ve moved central. I’ve been in SE1 a couple of months now, living in Bermond-on-sea and, though I’m a Londoner born ‘n’ bred (Penge -SE20-…yes it’s a place not a swear word), I’ve never lived so close to father Thames and the famous old things.
I’m right near Tower Bridge and the Tower of London, my heart still skips a beat every time I walk past that place. The things that have gone down within those (by 21st century standards diminutive looking) walls. I often think about Queen Liz (the original), my ginger idol; Walter Raleigh and other prisoners; the centuries of secrets and lies and the decisions taken to preserve or destroy human lives. After all of this drama there’s me, hovering around the walls because the tour’s too expensive, trying to digest a prawn mayo sarnie that won’t stop repeating on me. The other thing that I’ve noticed is the daily encounter I have with my fellow citizens who are rough sleeping and begging. I grew up expecting to see people begging in the tourist hot spots when I ‘go up town’. Now that I live in town I am noticing these people properly again for the first time. (More …) -
josh peters
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headspacebecky
I have an aversion to Christian books [as yet undecided on the bible]. In fact I have only read 2, 1 of which was ok and the other turned out to be a spectacular misjudgement on my part so I then stopped trying.
But I have just added a third to my arsenal, called Blue like jazz, by Donald Miller, as I was forced to as we are reading it for my small group. And thank the lord I almost enjoyed it. As I read the first pages I realised it was by an American [which was the mistake I made last time, sorry Josh] but soldiered on and then practically read the whole thing in one go. It’s not exactly theologically profound but its an honest book and i liked it mostly because the guy is quite neurotic, introverted and I felt a little bit more normal because of it.
So folks, what should I read next?
