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Faith in Motion, the Podcast
Hosted by Rev. Kelsey Beebe · EN
Hosted by Rev. Kelsey Peterson Beebe, this show explores what it means to have an embodied faith - a faith that comes alive in how we live, move, and love. Together, we slow down, reconnect with God, and learn to practice faith in tangible ways. In this space, you are invited to experience God’s love within and around you, and gently called forward to embody that grace in the world.
(Faith in Motion, the Podcast was formerly The Lady Preacher Podcast)
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What's Saving My Faith Right Now
Mar 3000:22:25Tap to summarizeEvery so often, I find it helpful to pause and name the things that are quietly holding me together—the small, ordinary practices that are keeping my faith alive.This episode is a version of that.These aren’t big, flashy spiritual habits. They’re simple things: bricking my phone, returning to prayer journaling (in a new way), reading more long-form writing, wearing color, leaning into creativity, and connecting with other moms.None of it looks particularly “religious" or "church-y." And yet, all of it has helped me connect more deeply to God, and to myself.So today, I’m just sharing my list.If it’s helpful, I invite you to take a few minutes to notice what’s saving your faith right now, too.Connect with us:Website: moveyourfaith.orgSubscribe to our weekly devotional: Embody FaithInstagram: @pastorkelseyb
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Wonder: Helping Kids Fall in Love with Scripture
Mar 2300:49:35Tap to summarizeWhat if the goal of reading the Bible wasn’t to have all the right answers—but to fall in love with the story?In this episode, I sit down with Meredith Miller to chat about her new book, Wonder: 52 Conversations to Help Kids Fall in Love With Scripture. Her passion for sharing the Bible and its stories with young folks - and helping adults feel confident in their abilities to do the same - truly shines.We explore the idea that the Bible can be both deeply meaningful and playful. Meredith invites us to release the need to take everything so seriously and ask, What if delight, curiosity, and even laughter can be part of how we engage scripture?Together, we reflect on what kids actually need when it comes to faith formation—and what they don’t. (Spoiler: it’s probably not what many of us were taught growing up.) And yes—this absolutely applies to adults, too.This conversation is an invitation to loosen your grip, trust your curiosity, and rediscover scripture as a place of wonder.About Meredith:Meredith Miller is a pastor and a parent who has spent most of the past twenty years helping families follow Jesus. She has been involved with Fuller Youth Institute since 2007 and from 2014-2019 she was Curriculum Director for the children's ministry at Willow Creek Community Church in Chicago, Illinois. Meredith holds a Master of Divinity degree from Fuller Theological Seminary, as well as a B.A. in Religious Studies and Spanish Language & Literature from Westmont College. She is pastor of Pomona Valley Church and calls Southern California home.You can find her on Instagram @MeredithAnneMiller and Substack where she writes about Kids and Faith, and you can order her book Wonder: 52 Conversations to Help Kids Fall in Love with Scripture wherever books are sold.Connect with us:Website: moveyourfaith.orgSubscribe to our weekly devotional: Embody FaithInstagram: @pastorkelseyb
Transcribe →Lectio Divina: Deuteronomy 6:4-9
Mar 1800:07:42Tap to summarizeYou shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.- Deuteronomy 6:4Lectio Divina is a spiritual practice that invites us to slow down, breathe, and spend a few quiet moments with God. Together, we’ll listen to scripture, reflect, and pray. You don’t need any prior experience or expertise; just a willingness to pause and listen for God’s love within and around you.Connect with us:Website: moveyourfaith.org Subscribe to our weekly devotional: Embody FaithInstagram: @faithinmotion.pod and @pastorkelseybSupport our ministry: moveyourfaith.org/give
Transcribe →Hidden Women of the Bible: Shiphrah, Puah, Rahab, and Phoebe
Mar 1600:26:51Tap to summarizeWhen we think about the most important people in the Bible, most of us were taught the stories of men: Abraham, Moses, David, Peter, Paul.But women have always been part of God’s story.In this episode we highlight three women in scripture whose courage and leadership helped shape the story of God’s people—women whose stories are often overlooked or reduced to a single line.You’ll meet:Shiphrah and Puah, the Hebrew midwives who resisted Pharaoh’s command to kill Hebrew baby boys and helped make the Exodus story possible.Rahab, the courageous woman in Jericho who protected the Israelite spies and negotiated safety for her family.Phoebe, a deacon of the early church who likely carried—and may have been the first to interpret—Paul’s letter to the Romans.Together, these women remind us that God has always been working through women: through courage, resistance, leadership, and faith.In honor of International Women’s Day, this episode invites us to read scripture a little more closely and rediscover the women who were there all along.Scripture Referenced:Exodus 1:15–21Joshua 2Romans 16:1–2Matthew 1 (Genealogy of Jesus)Books for further reading:A Womanist Midrash and The Womanist Lectionary by Wilda C. Gafney — powerful retellings and interpretations of biblical stories through a womanist lens.Books by Claire K. McKeever-Burgett, including Blessed Are the Women and In the Beginning Were the Women which explore the stories and theological significance of women in scripture.Books by Alice Connor, including Brave and Fierce, which highlight bold women of the Bible and the ways their stories still inspire faith today.Connect with us:Website: moveyourfaith.orgSubscribe to our weekly devotional: Embody FaithInstagram: @faithinmotion.pod and @pastorkelseybSupport our ministry: moveyourfaith.org/give
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Faith & Feminism with Rev. Delaney Schlake-Kruse
Mar 900:44:54Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Pastor Kelsey sits down with Rev. Delaney Schlake-Kruse to explore the intersection of faith, feminism, and leadership in the church. Together they discuss why the word feminism still raises resistance in many faith communities and how patriarchal assumptions have shaped expectations of leadership in ministry.Delaney invites us to reimagine leadership by looking closely at how Jesus leads—not through domination, hierarchy, or control, but through relationality, mutuality, and power shared with others. Through a feminist lens, we explore what it might mean to cultivate leadership styles in the church that reflect the way of Christ, rather than the patriarchy.About DelaneyRev. Delaney Schlake-Kruse (she/her) is the rector at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in St. Louis, Missouri. Delaney recently completed her Doctor of Ministry, focusing on feminist pastoral leadership and congregational discernment. She lives in St. Louis with her family and enjoys gardening, taking walks, and drinking coffee.Recommendations for further reading from Rev. Delaney:Gender Disrupted: Jesus as a “Man” in the Fourfold Gospel, by Brittany E. WilsonTheology for Skeptics: Reflections on God, by Dorothee SoelleSexism and God-Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology, by Rosemary Radford RuetherThe Man with the Flow of Power: Porous Bodies in Mark 5:25–34, by Candida R. MossBehold the Man: Jesus and Greco-Roman Masculinity, by Colleen M. ConwayConnect with us:Website: moveyourfaith.orgSubscribe to our weekly devotional: Embody FaithInstagram: @pastorkelseyb & @faithinmotion.pod
Transcribe →Lectio Divina: Proverbs 8:22-29, 32-35
Mar 500:11:12Tap to summarizeFor whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the Lord. - Proverbs 8:35Lectio Divina is a spiritual practice that invites us to slow down, breathe, and spend a few quiet moments with God. Together, we’ll listen to scripture, reflect, and pray. You don’t need any prior experience or expertise; just a willingness to pause and listen for God’s love within and around you.Connect with us:Website: dancingpastor.orgSubscribe to our weekly devotional: Embody FaithInstagram: @pastorkelseybSupport our ministry: dancingpastor.org/give
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The Fierce, Brave Women of the Bible with Rev. Alice Connor (REPLAY)
Mar 200:52:08Tap to summarizeWomen play an integral part in history, including in biblical history. In many contexts, they are seen as mere side characters, and often aren’t even recognized with a name. However, we know that women are not just sidebars: they are main characters. They love, they birth, they lead, they prophesy, they teach, they heal, they wage war, and they testify.Author and Episcopal priest Rev. Alice Connor is here to share some of these women’s stories with us today. She recently wrote the book, Fierce: Women of the Bible and Their Stories of Violence, Mercy, Bravery, Wisdom, Sex, and Salvation, which is a follow up to her book Brave: Women of the Bible and Their Stories of Grief, Mercy, Folly, Joy, Sex, and Redemption. Alice talks about how the Bible is R-rated because it is real, and our real lives (not the ones we post on social media for all to see) are definitely R-rated. When we read these women’s stories within the Bible for what they truly are: raw, honest, full-bodied, and whole-hearted, we not only see them for who they are, but we see ourselves as well.About Alice:Rev. Alice Connor is an Episcopal priest and a chaplain on a college campus. She wrote Fierce: Women of the Bible and Their Stories of Violence, Mercy, Bravery, Wisdom, Sex, and Salvation, How to Human: An Incomplete Manual for Living in a Messed-Up World, and Brave: Women of the Bible and their Stories of Grief, Mercy, Folly, Joy, Sex, and Redemption.She co-wrote an article for the Journal for the Study of the New Testament called “Mantic Mary? The Virgin Mother as Prophet in Luke 1:26-56 and the Early Church.” That’s academic-speak for “Hey, maybe Mary the mother of Jesus was more than a mom and actually had a word of challenge to speak to us? Just sayin’.”Alice is also a certified enneagram teacher and a stellar pie-maker. She lives for challenging conversations and has a high tolerance for awkwardness. She lives in Cincinnati with her husband, two kids, a dog, and no cats.Connect with us:Website: moveyourfaith.orgSubscribe to our weekly devotional: Embody FaithInstagram: @pastorkelseyb
Transcribe →Lectio Divina: Micah 6:8
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Transcribe →Less Striving, More Grace: A Softer Approach to Lent
Feb 2300:15:30Tap to summarizeIt’s okay to be inconsistent in our faith practices. God doesn’t expect perfection.In this episode, Pastor Kelsey reminds us that it’s okay to be human.The reason so many new year resolutions fail is because we expect perfection from ourselves. We get off course or miss a few days, and we throw it all away. The same can be true with our faith and prayer practices. We might set an intention at the beginning of Lent to journal every day or read the Bible every morning, and that is a beautiful thing to try! But remember - you are human. Kids get sick, work projects take up space, there’s a leak somewhere, your hormones are out of whack or mercury is in retrograde. Whatever it is, remember that life happens and it’s okay to acknowledge that sometimes our good intentions can be set aside for a few days. It doesn’t mean you have failed: it means you are human.Links mentioned in the episode: Blyth Barnow’s Instagram post @femminary: “Lent is not a diet plan”Connect with us:Website: dancingpastor.orgSubscribe to our weekly devotional: Embody FaithInstagram: @pastorkelseybSupport our ministry: dancingpastor.org/give
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Faith Practice, not Faith Perfect with Val Hystek
Feb 1601:01:56Tap to summarizeWhat if faith was never meant to be something we get right?In this tender and honest conversation, Pastor Kelsey sits down with writer Val Hystek to talk about perfectionism, people-pleasing, and the deep desire many of us carry to be the “good girl” who gets faith, motherhood, and life right.Val shares pieces of her story, including her experience of secondary infertility and recurrent pregnancy loss, and how those seasons unraveled the version of faith she thought she needed to maintain. Together, we explore what it looks like to stop striving for perfect and instead embrace faith as a practice — something lived, questioned, wrestled with, and held with compassion.This episode is for anyone who feels tired of trying to earn God’s love, exhausted from performing goodness, or unsure how faith fits into the messy realities of real life.Because faith was never meant to be perfect — only practiced.Connect with us:Website: dancingpastor.orgSubscribe to our weekly devotional: Embody FaithInstagram: @pastorkelseybSupport our ministry: dancingpastor.org/giveAbout Val Val Hystek (she/her) has always been a writer, but becoming an author was an audacious dream for a 90s kid.After completing her Honours Specialization in English Language and Literature Degree from the University of Western Ontario, Val went on to become a primary teacher at an inner-city school in Ontario. She is married and a mom to two girls, Savanna (10) and Paisley (6).After experiencing secondary infertility and three recurrent miscarriages, Val began to write again, trying to find Jesus underneath the pieces of her shattered faith.She now writes for her online community, both on Instagram and Facebook, and is on a year's sabbatical from teaching to travel and write a book.She is creating a space where good and holy work can be messy and wild by giving wonder, loneliness, questions, doubt, beauty and anger a voice. This community is stubbornly seeking after the heart of Jesus in a posture of curiosity and discovering just how wide and how deep the love of God is.
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