Faith in Motion, the Podcast

Rev. Kelsey Beebe
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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.

  1. Faith Practice, not Faith Perfect with Val Hystek

    6D AGO

    Faith Practice, not Faith Perfect with Val Hystek

    What 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.org Subscribe to our weekly devotional: Embody Faith Instagram: @pastorkelseyb Support our ministry: dancingpastor.org/give About 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.

    1h 2m

  2. FEB 12

    Lectio Divina: Psalm 131 - A Prayer of Quiet Trust

    I have calmed and quieted myself, I am like a weaned child with its mother. - Psalm 131 Lectio 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: Connect with us: Website: dancingpastor.org Subscribe to our weekly devotional: Embody Faith Instagram: @pastorkelseyb Support our ministry: dancingpastor.org/give

    7 min

  3. FEB 10

    7 Ways to Prayerfully Calm Your Nervous System

    An invitation to breathe, ground, and begin again - together. After a season away, we’re beginning gently, by tending to our bodies and souls. We’re all carrying a lot of stress, grief, and overwhelm right now. Our nervous systems, collectively, are a bit fried. In this episode, we explore what it means to seek an abundant life in the midst of a hurting world, and how prayerful, embodied practices can help us find healing and calm, without ignoring reality. Pastor Kelsey helps us explore how stress and trauma live in our bodies, and then guides us through simple, prayerful, embodied practices that can help regulate our nervous systems. Those practices include breath prayer, grounding, shaking, cold water, community, and song. If you are feeling exhausted, on edge, or simply longing for a softness in your body and spirit, this episode is for you. Links we mention: Listen to Minister Blyth Barnow's episode on Holy Harm Reduction and the impact of community with addiction. Connect with us: Website: dancingpastor.org Subscribe to our weekly devotional: Embody Faith Instagram: @pastorkelseyb Support our ministry: dancingpastor.org/give

    33 min

  4. FEB 9

    Introducing Faith in Motion, the Podcast: Where We've Been & Where We're Going!

    Come experience God’s love, go embody God’s grace. In this short intro episode, Pastor Kelsey shares the heart of Faith in Motion as a place to explore what it means to have an embodied faith - a faith that comes alive in how we live, move, and love. 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. Connect with us: Website: dancingpastor.org Subscribe to our weekly devotional: Embody Faith Instagram: @pastorkelseyb Support our ministry: dancingpastor.org/give

    23 min

  5. 03/03/2025

    Rev. Latishia James: The Faith of Our Ancestors

    Faith in Motion, the Podcast

    40 min

  6. 02/27/2025

    Marcie Alvis Walker: Everybody Come Alive (replay)

    Faith in Motion, the Podcast

    56 min

  7. 02/24/2025

    Lisa Sharon Harper: A Very Good Gospel (Replay)

    For Black History Month, we are going back through the archives and listening to the voices of some of the incredible Black Women who have been on the show. Prolific author and speaker, Lisa Sharon Harper, joins us this week, speaking about how we are all made in God’s image and called good, and how often we forget that - about ourselves and about each other. She shares her journey of discovering what the “very good Gospel” is and offers that good news to us, inviting us into the vision God has for the world, and a profound belief that God’s peace is possible. About Lisa From Ferguson to New York, and from Germany to South Africa to Australia, Lisa Sharon Harper leads trainings that increase clergy and community leaders’ capacity to organize people of faith toward a just world. A prolific speaker, writer and activist, Ms. Harper is the founder and president of FreedomRoad.us, a consulting group dedicated to shrinking the narrative gap in our nation by designing forums and experiences that bring common understanding, common commitment and common action. She hosts the podcast Freedom Road which features guests who are leaders in the faith and justice movement. Ms. Harper is the author of several books, including Evangelical Does Not Equal Republican…or Democrat (The New Press, 2008); Left Right and Christ: Evangelical Faith in Politics (Elevate, 2011); Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith (Zondervan, 2014); and the critically acclaimed, The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong can be Made Right (Waterbrook, a division of Penguin Random House, 2016). The Very Good Gospel, recognized as the “2016 Book of the Year” by Englewood Review of Books, explores God’s intent for the wholeness of all relationships in light of today’s headlines. Her most recent book, Fortune: How Race Broke My Family and the World--and How to Repair It All, draws on her lifelong journey to know her family’s history, exposes the brokenness that race has wrought in America, and casts a vision for collective repair. Connect with us! Donate today and support our work!Sign up to receive a little Gospel in your inbox every Monday Morning with our weekly devotional.Join our FREE bookclubCheck out our website for various resources - including devotionals, journaling prompts, and even curriculumGet some Lady Preacher Podcast swag!Connect with us on Instagram and Facebook

    1h 2m

  8. 02/21/2025

    What's Saving My Faith & My Life - 33rd Birthday Edition!

    Today Pastor Kelsey turns 33, and to celebrate, she's reflecting on seven things that are saving her faith and her life.  Community & letting people inWriting in my prayer journal againOne small thing for myself (special shout out to Kendra Adachi aka The Lazy Genius and her book The Lazy Genius Way)Rachel Held Evans’ book Wholehearted FaithGratitude“The most helpful thing you can do for us…”The Marco Polo app CONNECT WITH US: Donate today and support our work!Sign up to receive a little Gospel in your inbox every Monday Morning with our weekly devotional.Join our FREE bookclubCheck out our website for various resources - including devotionals, journaling prompts, and even curriculumGet some Lady Preacher Podcast swag!Connect with us on Instagram and Facebook

    21 min
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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.

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  • Creator
    Rev. Kelsey Beebe
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    297
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Faith in Motion, the Podcast
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