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Esther Sparks

Esther Sparks is a singer, songwriter, visual artist and story teller from the west of Scotland; she was raised in an intentional, spiritual community in the rolling hills near Loch Lomond. For eleven years, Esther and her family lived in New Orleans, where she worked with numerous musicians, wrote and recorded three albums and worked as a singer in the evenings, and a mom during the day. In 2009, during the fallout from the great recession, the Sparks family lost their income, and then their home. Subsequently, they lost their sanity, their sobriety and their faith. Esther’s sixth and most recent album: ‘Drowning, Rising & the Space In-Between’ chronicles her journey through that loss, recovery and rebirth, and is now available at all major online outlets. Esther lives in Colorado with her husband and three grown kids. She loves to make little sketches and films for her songs and you can find these on her YouTube channel.

In These 12 Days of Christmas, Thoughts on Mother God

Esther Sparks
December 30, 2021
Church Life, Theology, Women
Motherhood is an earthy, human, painful, female event, filled with soaring joy and searing pain. God came to us like this.

God of Liminal Space

Esther Sparks
August 16, 2021
Art, Family and Parenting, General
God was in that spot.  God was in the most mundane, powerless, painful place.

Come to Me All You Who are Angry

Esther Sparks
May 10, 2021
Church Life, General, Theology
Sketch drawn from a photograph in the Associated Press. A woman in the crowd lowers her mask to wail when she hears the grand jury decision regarding the death of Breonna Taylor.

Oh God, Where Are You Now?

Esther Sparks
December 22, 2020
Art, General, Global
If you’re on any kind of a spiritual journey, there inevitably comes a day when all the usual “lights” go out.

1,000 Tongues, and the Job of Telling the Truth

Esther Sparks
October 20, 2020
Art, Global, Race
She spoke with affection about her mother and grandmother and the struggles of their lives. “And my great-great grandmother,” she added in conclusion, “was a slave.” Her last sentence hit me like a thunder clap.

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