Renée Antrosio

Mourning & Hope

Renée Antrosio – March 6, 2018 Comment

I want to write of joy. Winter sunshine promising spring. Green bulbs emerging through soggy brown leaves. Crocuses now, tulips later. But the Lenten readings keep foreshadowing Good Friday. Stories of betrayal and

Blood and Sacrifice

Renée Antrosio – February 27, 2018 Comment

We have a violence problem. As a nation. As a religion. Intertwined. How might our theology of blood sacrifice condone violence? Perhaps our image of God has become twisted by religious

February showers

Renée Antrosio – February 20, 2018 Comment

Rain in Champaign. Snow in Denver. Falling on us collectively, alone in our cars and on the crowded freeway. Watering the earth. Initiating a process of rebirth, making it conceive

love by numbers

Renée Antrosio – February 13, 2018 Comment

Music. Math. What entices you to fellowship? (Math??) Sometimes the singing. Where our joyful noise combines with musicians’ gifts to become a pleasing sound. I move into the Lord’s presence as

Wash your hands

Renée Antrosio – February 6, 2018 Comment

Please. It’s flu season. Wash your hands frequently. After you touch something unclean, before you eat. When you get home from work, back from the store, wash off those germs.

Need a Creed?

Renée Antrosio – December 20, 2017 Comment

At New Covenant, we aren’t into creeds. This is important to our identity — choosing no defining formula for what we all believe. But it does complicate our ability to articulate who

sola Scriptura

Renée Antrosio – November 4, 2017 Comment

I read it. You read it. He reads it. We all read Scripture. In our own language, in the translation(s) of our choice. We quote it. We excerpt it. We

Expectation and revelation

Renée Antrosio – October 19, 2017 Comment

What do I expect to happen when I sit down with scripture each morning? I come to the table with hope and with need. Looking for a word, a phrase—for

Devotion

Renée Antrosio – August 30, 2017 Comment

I could not have imagined a better introduction to Acts than an all-fellowship retreat focused on community and the Holy Spirit. And, of course, I didn’t plan it. While I was working

Thoughts about sheep and whiteness

Renée Antrosio – July 11, 2017 Comment

Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from Renée’s July 2 teaching on Genesis 31. I was tempted to skip the verses where Jacob talks about the sheep. I figured

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