Ekstasis MagazineComment

2022 Christmas Collection

Ekstasis MagazineComment
2022 Christmas Collection

The Christmas Collection


Most Read Essays & Poetry of 2022


Top 5 Essays

Karen Stiller | Don’t Do Your Best

Yi Ning Chiu | Like & Subscribe for Eternal Life

Paul Anleitner | The God We Thought Was Dead

Josh Nadeau | Theology in the Grit

Joe Plicka | Deep Night, Dark Night


Top 5 Poems

Kate Chupp | The Dust is My Home

Karen Swallow Prior | Creature to Creature

Steve Bell | Sundays with Ruth

Joshua Hren | After You Went and Died

Noelle Wells | A Lament for Right Now


Essays of the Christmas Collection


New Features
& From the Archives


Andrew Senior | Glory in the Unfinished

Jessica Qualls | Not in Spite of this Sadness, Because of It

Preston Pouteaux | Patina of Longing

Corban McKain | The Ever Dawning Advent

Caroline Jane Kelly | To Walk by Lantern Light


Poetry of the Autumn Collection


New Features
& From the Archives

Leslie Williams | Love (3)

Nicole Rollender | Motherhood Marginalia

Alexis Ragan | Plastic

Brian Ferris | Glory in the Concert Hall

Royal Rhodes | Adoration of the Magi

Ryan Keating | He Chora Tou Achoretou

Mary Grace Mangano | Advent

Michael Stalcup | Mary and Eve

Lou Ella Hickman | for an anchoress

Kara Vollman | For My Brother

Connie T. Braun | The Great Conjunction

Alexander Brickey | This Our Hallowed Haunting

J.A. Baker | the shortest day of the year

Michael Bonikowsky | Advent in Congregant care

Peter Lilly | Christmas Day

Seth Wieck | Name One Thing New

Taryn Patricia | Wonder II

Beth Tosh | Much Too Much