We are excited to announce the launch of Parousia Reads, a publishing firm and online bookstore whose aim is to create a home for you as a Christian author. We explore numerous arts through captivating, interesting and outstanding writing, illustrations and more. Parousia reads is a sister body to Parousia Magazine, Africa’s First Christian Art…
Pinnng! nosce te ipsum (Latin meaning: know Thyself) By: Marcel Graves (Genesis 1:26) Truly glorious gifts come in small packages: Consider your size relative to our planet, Nay, our solar system, Nay, our galaxy, Nay, our universe! We are truly miniscule. But inside! Whoa! What an infinite greatness is working from within! Created in the…
Hair Woven, pressed, rolled, washed, curled, cut, shaved, combed, dyed, dried, tied, fried, palmated, braided, wired, piled, styled, tamed, rinsed, renewed, wind blown, flipped, up, back, under, clipped, unruly, wiry, teased, twisted, red, blond, gray, auburn, brown, chestnut, silver, ginger, sandy, bleached, black, fuzzy, sculpted tresses, mops, manes– Art: the color of hair. Above and…
Beauty For Ashes is an outstanding book published by Parousia in 2021. We had an interesting conversation Oluwatoyin A Olojo about her debut book. This interview gave insight about her and her book. Why did you decide to write Beauty for Ashes? Is there something specifically that spurred you to write this book? Writing Beauty…
GOD SEEMS DISTANT Humans are close But cannot understand and this place of a leader I want no more. The price is too steep, the depths too wide God seems distant, my pain is all I hear. BIO: Abasiama Udom is a polymathic writer and poet, she writes from Akwa Ibom, Nigeria. Her works have been…
Happy Birthday I think you’re wonderful Happy birthday to you You are my sunshine Happy birthday I’ll row your boat If you row mine Happy birthday dear baby I think you’re Devine Happy birthday to you I want you, baby Because life Is but a dream I want you the way you are So stand…
I WILL I will stand by your door I will knock till you open I will call out your name even in eternity’s yawn my legs hurt, my fingers bloody my voice hoarse Yet I will stay, Arms wide open Proclaiming a love you desire I will stand by your door, I will knock, I…
In the Morning When sun shines in And flaws take shape Because mother said You must be perfect Even if the man in bed Isn’t, I’m wed to someone I don’t know who owns Summers of snow No flowers, no hope With nothing to guide Even love needs faith To shine through. Bio: Ann Privateer…
Ann Privateer is a poet, artist, and photographer. Some of her recent work has appeared in Third Wednesday and Entering to name a few.
MAD OR IN LOVE I still pray amidst my pain To a God I am not sure hears either I am mad or in love yet I choose the later loving, trusting desperately this God in whose word I find redemption yet I am either mad or in love BIO: Abasiama Udom is a polymathic…
An Antenna Sits on my windowsill Two long silver fingers As thin as fishing poles Like a V for victory Pointing to heaven Captures the signal From networks in the ether Connecting me To comedy, sometimes Or news of the day And then, I’m not alone. Bio: Ann Privateer is a poet, artist, and photographer.…
Why metamorphose like the world When you can be like the Word? For many are ignorantly deceived By the appealing of the world Thinking they’re admirable in the world But, their worthlessness lie in a bed of roses And by and by in time and tide They will be a wart to the world And…
We are so glad to announce the release of the debut book of Oluwatoyin A. Olojo, “BEAUTY FOR ASHES.” About the Book Beauty for Ashes by Oluwatoyin A. Olojo is a masterpiece on healing, love, faith and hope with love being the foundation. It describes the unique journey of man with God, a true Christian…
We are pleased to announce the release of “Divine Encounters With Jesus (My Testimony)” by Chinwe Chinaka. This is a memoir written to inspire you to march into victory. Chinwe Lillian Chinaka hails from South Eastern Nigeria, she is the fourth child in a family of seven: four girls and three boys. She hold a…
This Evening Hoard in heart holding the ears of this stormThat, like a tormenter, entered the gardenTo rob it of its beautySome bright dayWe can talk about this dark time. Don’t allow an easy fallTo the tears falling from your eyesLet some dust of rage rise from the floorWhere the drops fallLet dissatisfaction take a…
THE EPIDEMIC (NEW CORONA) Woe bring’st thou and woe thee betide.For all that sorrow to thee are tied.And for fatalities by yours upon our comrades;First the SARS, then MERS; all in raids,Usurping our dominance over lower beings,From bats and cats to donkeys and dogs, like outlawed kings. Perhaps these, for transgressions by our kind,Perpetrated against…
The Day We Learnt To Wash Our Hands The Universal creator took a paint brush and flicked it across the world. It landed where it did. The people didn’t see it coming, even though it was quite a bright white, it wasn’t until it landed on the skin that it came into awareness. Still many…
SUNLESS DAYS Our hopes have flownAnd our dreams drownedIn the shattered streamsOf anxiety and perplexityShadowed by dreariness. Die not the smearing sunFor thy creatures need it.Die not the scorching sunFor the whole world weepsFor the coldness of the dawn. Our sight is blurred,But the thundering voiceOf a blissful sonShall change the shrieky tuneOf wails; Christ…
How Invaluable Can Life Be? If anyone told me that I’ll lose a loved one to viruses which I’ve been studying in the university, I’ll call it the biggest lie of the century. I will gather strength to discredit such person and maybe dissociate from such Harbinger of Death. But here it is, 33 days…
To heal is to let go of your broken past,Retold sins and the will to forgo those ills,Creating a new human from the ruins of old souls,A new you baptized with abundant Grace. To heal is to merge your present with God,Confess old sins and drink from his cup of grace,Bathe your soul with his…
PAROUSIA Magazine is calling for submissions for it 13th Issue to be published by July 2021 The theme of this forthcoming Issue is Indwelling Ephesians 1:13 KJVIn whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with…
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