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Welcome to the year 2019! This week Cass and Marie chat with author\xa0Tim Rymel who served as an evangelical Christian minister for nearly twenty-five years, including six years as the outreach director for Love in Action, once the world\u2019s oldest and most renowned \u201cex-gay\u201d ministry. He is a conversion therapy survivor.

Tim holds a master\u2019s degree in education, for which he researched cognition and transformational learning. He is a member of the American Psychological Association in the Educational Psychology division, as well as the Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transexual Issues.

Tim\u2019s work has appeared in several publications, including HuffPost and the Good Men Project where he writes on the confluence of religion, politics, and sexuality. He has also appeared on multiple podcasts, radio and television shows, including Fox News Radio and Vice News Media. Stories about his journey and work can be found in Buzzfeed, ThinkProgress, the Advocate, and Time. Tim is the co-host of the Recovering from Religion podcast.

He is the author of Rethinking Everything: When Faith and Reality Don\u2019t Make Sense (2018), Going Gay: My Journey from Evangelical Christian Minister to Self-Acceptance, Love, Life, and Meaning (2014) and the business book Everything I Learned about Management I Learned from Having a Kindergartner (2012).

Tim's Website

www.timrymel.com