Stacy Jagger

Think Anne Lamott meets Emmylou Harris, except Stacy Jagger complains far less about her hair or the Bush administration than Lamott, and has not yet sung a duet with Bruce Springsteen, like Harris. But besides that, you get the kind of wry and sometimes overly honest humor one might expect of a woman who was breastfeeding her first child when she found out one of her songs won first prize for her category in the 2007 John Lennon Songwriting Contest. With a life of these kinds of paradoxes, Jagger is too far grounded in reality to let fleeting accolades go to her head.



Actually, it is exactly the seeming contradictions of her life that make the messages from this singer, songwriter, and women’s ministry speaker easy for audiences to relate to. Why should a woman with an alcoholic father write a poem for him called “The Things He Did Right” – and mean it? According to many, she shouldn’t. What right does a woman who has walked through troubled waters in her marriage have to talk to other people about the topic of forgiveness? Some might say, “None.” And maybe the critics are right. But maybe not. Since Stacy Jagger believes there is no one who came from a perfect family of origin or who now has a perfect family of their own, she is confident that must mean God intends to work in and through the imperfect. So she raised her hand and said, “Here I am.”



Because of the effortless way in which Stacy sprinkles humor into stories that might otherwise break your heart, her listeners sometimes don’t know whether to laugh or cry. They usually compromise and do both. Telling stories in a frank, no-nonsense manner, wielding a guitar, and singing with a voice that is as original as the songs themselves, Stacy Jagger artfully helps women navigate the often murky waters of their hearts, and tap into a fresh well of Christ’s hope, healing, and restoration.

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