Tim Rymel

Tim Rymel, M.Ed., is a conversion therapy survivor. He 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’s oldest and most renowned “ex-gay” ministry. Love in Action was the subject of the film "Boy Erased" in 2018.

Tim’s work has appeared in several publications, including HuffPost, the Good Men Project, and Medium, 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 former co-host of the Recovering from Religion podcast.

He is the author of Rethinking Everything: When Faith and Reality Don’t 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). He is a contributor to the academic publication, Negotiating Spiritual Violence in the Queer Community (2019). Additionally, he wrote two brief ebooks, 5 Facts About Conversion Therapy We Know For Sure (2018), and Where Did My Religion Come From?: A Brief History of American Evangelical Christianity (2018).

Tim holds a master’s degree in education, for which he researched cognition and transformational learning. As an empty nester, he resides in Northern California with his husband, Abel, and their dogs, Habib, Kevin, and Maxwell. timrymel.net