On Earth As It IsWhat would happen if streets of gold dripped down from heaven in a splat upon our streets of earth and mud and mire?Big wet puddles of bright, shining thingslike hope and reconciliation;iridescent, interrupting the flow of … Continue reading On Earth As It Is | Carly M. Samudre | Poetry
I once saw flowers,Steady like the trees,As if nothing would harm them,Unlike someone so chaotic as me.As they swayed in the breeze,One called to meSaying look here,This is how you’ll find your peace.To glance upon sky,To feel insideThe Holy Ghost … Continue reading Poem of Peace by Taylor Brindley
Can Art Lie?Playfully soft guitar chordsFall lovingly from the ethersSerenading my mind and soulIn a calming soothing embrace.Although I did not sleepI feel soft and loved.While this may beAn illusion Perhaps it is a signThat I can create anything In … Continue reading Can Art Lie? | Rick Davis | Poetry
Notably, the fellowship has been enriched by the expertise of esteemed mentors, including the Founder of Parousia Collective and Managing Editor of Parousia Magazine Tola Ijalusi, who has been inspiring and guiding 7 young Nigerian writers in the Review Category since 2018. Continue reading Application Open for The 2025 Sprinng Writing Fellowship | PAROUSIA Magazine
I Attest That God Loves All His ChildrenFrom the swollen banks of the Congo Riverto flooded delta rice fields in South Vietnam to the boy who waters down the dustat the beginning of the dayin a Guatemalan open-air marketto the … Continue reading Christ- Centered Haiku & Other Poems from Michael Shoemaker
Lately, I’ve been rekindling an old creative passion and pursuing new challenges in relation to it. But I’ve been wondering if I’m too old to try something new like this. I’m thirty-six, and I’ve spent the better part of the … Continue reading She Wholly Followed the Lord | Kaitlyn Ramos | Creative Nonfiction
This Beating Heart————————-You reached into the depths of me,My black, sinful, soul,And took the heart that would not feelAnd gave me this new heart—One of flesh, beating and tender.I hold it now,Unsure of its rhythm,Afraid of the breaking it might … Continue reading This Beating Heart & Fragility of Life | Stephen Landis | Poetry
Poems to God No. 81 Obvious & obscure God of godly irony & sacred ambiguities, radiating a deep darkness among intense intimacies, self-evident while being beautifully hidden everywhere my imagination seeks You in cumulus clouds of unknowing while I keep … Continue reading Poems to God No. 81, No. 83, No. 84 | Alan Altany | Poetry
‘Collisions’Planets collide at the strength of His voice. The vastness of space expands in silence with no noise.Stars explode, they cannot contain their praises, supernovas singing His name in their blazes.Each galaxy sparkling like diamonds as they swirl and spin, … Continue reading Collisions & Pretty Places Mixed With Pain | Asonti Logan | Poetry
Evangelicals in Widening GyreTwisting…tumbling from once known circlethe falcon falls through black expanse;o how everything has fallen,and center has dissolved.Seminal anarchy has conceived in this womb of a world,from Satan’s heart to practiced art.A postmodern turn has twisted its thorns … Continue reading Evangelicals in Widening Gyre by Jeff Beaupre | Poetry | PAROUSIA Magazine
The dilemma of Martha and Mary (Luke 10:38-42) always stirs up memories of my childhood. When I hear the familiar story, I try to picture Martha, her sister Mary, and their brother Lazurus, living in Bethany, a small village in … Continue reading MARTHA – MARY MOMENTS by Sheila M. Cronin
A Man in Death’s ShadowWhen I felt Death’s cold deep shadow,When I felt the sickly murder of the sun, cold Darkness pricking skin,When I looked and saw this uncouth form, Rising black, a sickle high o’er me,When I in this … Continue reading A Man in Death’s Shadow by J.R. Beaupre | Poetry | PAROUSIA Magazine
A RA W O R D U N D(TIME)…as time flies fast – unless GOD cuts its wings.But then time seems to simply start to runout of space. Time sometimes only bringsslow-motion sighing from the setting sun.Yes, time can heal; … Continue reading Three poems of cyclic verses from Rick К. Reut. | Poetry | PAROUSIA Magazine
“The Bible says the Lord can fit the universe in the span of His hand.” Preacher man rocks forward on his heels and wipes his mouth with a blue handkerchief. The organist, who punctuates every idea with a Taa-daa, does … Continue reading redemption beyond the walls by Mary Eileen Ball | Flash Fiction | PAROUSIA Magazine
The Night the North Star Fell From the Sky by Leigh-Anne BurleyBorn in obscuritystuffed into creases within shadowsstamped the wrong way upmolding in dark cornersencased in a glass prison.Anchor hoistedmy mind drifting upon turbulent waters.Stacked maizestoppling oversense of place and … Continue reading The Night the North Star Fell From the Sky by Leigh-Anne Burley | Poetry | PAROUSIA Magazine
Sarif smirks as he swipes through pictures on his phone, most of which are years old on his phone. The pictures he sees are the ones he took at the beach during last year’s Christmas. He smiles at his rumbled … Continue reading Aftermath by Olayioye Paul Bamidele| Fiction | PAROUSIA Magazine
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