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Tim Rymel

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I spent nearly 25 years as a fundamentalist, evangelical minister, including six years in leadership at what was once the world's oldest and most renowned "ex-gay" ministry. I am a conversion therapy survivor. My books include, Rethinking Everything - When Faith and Reality Don't Make Sense (2018), Going Gay (2014), and the business book, Everything I Learned About Management I Learned From Having a Kindergartner (2012). I've also written two e-books: Where Did My Religion Come From?: A Brief History of American Evangelical Christianity (2018) and 5 Facts About Conversion Therapy We Know For Sure (2018). And I contributed a chapter to the academic book, Negotiating Spiritual Violence in the Queer Community (2019).

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	Going Gay: My Journey from Evangelical Christian Minister to Self-acceptance, Love, Life, and Meaning by Tim Rymel (Goodreads Author), Beverly Baccala (Editor), John J. Smid (Foreword) 3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rethinking Everything: When Faith and Reality Don't Make Sense 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Everything I Learned About Management I Learned from Having a Kindergartner it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“I’ve learned not to put energy into people who don’t accept me the way I am.”
― Tim Rymel, Going Gay: My Journey from Evangelical Christian Minister to Self-acceptance, Love, Life, and Meaning

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“Even at that time, I felt much of what came from the Family Research Council, the research institute from Focus on the Family, didn’t sit right. When they put out an article stating the average life span of a gay man was 44 years old, a seed of doubt was planted in my mind about the legitimacy of their study.”
― Tim Rymel, Going Gay: My Journey from Evangelical Christian Minister to Self-acceptance, Love, Life, and Meaning

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“The issues men and women brought to the ministry were sometimes much greater than we were qualified to address.”
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