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What do JCPenny’s and the Church have in common?

by Nicole Havelka | Mar 5, 2013 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Giving Up Grief for Lent: A Lenten Blog Series that explores the things the Mainline church needs to grieve in order to embrace a new Easter reality … As an elementary school-aged child in the 1980s, I can remember the JCPenny’s store being THE destination for...

Speed Golf? What’s Next … Speed Church?

by Nicole Havelka | Nov 8, 2012 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

I’m not the kind of person you’d ever catch wearing golf shorts and gloves, pulling out my nine-iron to tee off on the 7th hole. My fast-moving, often scattered brain can’t imagine spending a Saturday afternoon this way; much less why anyone would sit at home and...