Rev. Kevin Beebe: Praying Our Way through Marriage

It's HERE! Our most-requested episode with Pastor Kelsey and her husband, Rev. Kevin Beebe! They talk about everything from how they handle conflict to how they keep faith an integral part of their relationship. 

We took requests for questions and had a blast talking through them. Here are some of the things you asked and we answered:

• What is your story? How did you meet?
• What are your Enneagram numbers and how have we used Enneagram as a tool in our marriage?
• How do you handle conflict?
• What role does faith play in your relationship? Do you have any practical tips for integrating faith in a marriage?
• How do you manage being a part of two denominations (United Church of Christ and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America)?
• What are the joys and challenges of being a clergy couple? And how do you pay attention to the way patriarchy may influence that?
• What is it about the other that makes you continue to choose them? How has being in a relationship with each other helped you grow?

Pastors Kevin and Kelsey offer the caveat that they are not marriage experts, but pray this episode offers you insight into their relationship, what they are learning, and perhaps that will both help you feel less alone in your struggles and maybe provide you with a few extra tools in your relationship toolbox.

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The Rev. Kevin Beebe joined Spirit Alive! Church in Kenosha, WI as Pastor in September 2019. He arrived at Spirit Alive! after previously completing his internship at The Bridge in St. Charles, MO and finishing his Master of Divinity at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary of California Lutheran University. Prior to seminary, Kevin graduated from the University of Montana and served as a Young Adult in Global Mission of the ELCA, working in conjunction with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land as an English teacher in Ramallah, Palestine. He grew up in Pullman, WA, nestled between the wheat fields of the Palouse and the cultural center of Washington State University. Kevin and his wife, Kelsey, and their cat, Velcro, live in Kenosha.

Pastor Kevin is driven by an understanding that God’s Love is constantly breaking into our lives, pulling us into deeper relationship with the Divine and the rest of creation. He is drawn to the ways God’s grace thrusts us into the world to live out God’s justice and proclaim that the Kin-dom is at hand.