the headspace collective

joncoe

  • 01:06:29 pm on March 9, 2009 | # | 3

    Here is what Headspace might not be.  But then it might be some small fragment of what it might be.  So I thought I’d post it.  Hopefully it’s at least suitably ambiguous.  Any thoughts, anyone…?

     

     

    Headspace is a group of people who gather together, armed with their doubts to celebrate their faith: faith in God, and in each other.  Their corporate faith: their individual faith.

     

     

    Headspace is made up of people passing through, exploring this terrain of faith, and of earth, but loitering long enough in this place to call it home.

     

     

    Headspace believes in God and Headspace doesn’t believe in God.  Only the God Headspace can’t conceive of is big enough to be God; the God Headspace believes in.

     

     

    Headspace is the sum of its parts.  But Headspace is more than the sum of its parts.  And those parts are swimming, in flux, ever changing.  Each of us make Headspace what it is.  And none of us is in stasis.  

     

     

    And so neither is Headspace.  Which makes it hard to define; and means this is no definition. 

     

     

    Headspace is defined not by words, but by what we make it

     

     

     

     

Comments

  • rich w 4:12 pm on 9 March, 2009 | # |

    I think headspace is much less ambiguous/alternative/elusive than we pretend to be…

    Mine would be:

    Headspace is a community that explores how orthodox christian spirituality is lived out. We celebrate new angles and old truths, hoping that different points of view will help us build a richer picture of God. Come and join in. We aren’t weird.

  • Peter & Becca 9:17 am on 24 March, 2009 | # |

    Don’t say that you’re not weird cos that looks like you are… which we all are let’s be honest. Especially you Rich.
    Headspace is definitely ambiguous… It is also alternative but I don’t think alternative means anything anymore. After all everything is an alternative to something. I like what you’ve written Jon, especially about believing and not believing about God. It is very John Coe… uncommitted, intelligent with a slight amble. Depends what you’ll use it for.. if it’s an entrance point for people it will go way over some people’s heads and writing something more succinct could be important. Love you all.

  • joncoe 11:25 am on 24 March, 2009 | # |

    Thanks Pete. I think. I’m not sure what I think about being ‘uncommitted’ – uncommitted to definitives perhaps (that which defines and limits), but uncommitted to Headspace? Well, at least, I hope I’m not.

    I could perhaps explain more why I put it in the terms I did, but I won’t just now – the idea wasn’t for it to clarify what Headspace is, it was just a few thoughts I had (that I was hesitant to post – it took a good couple of weeks), about what Headspace looks like to me. I certainly wouldn’t want be the one to define it, which is why it took me a while to post it. The introduction to it was meant to be some kind of disclaimer.

    And thanks Rich – I do like how you put it. Although I too question those final three words. I think I am. At least a bit.


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