Episode

Conversion Therapy Droupout

Podcast: Unbelief
Published: Jun 22, 2026
Duration seconds: 3435
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Summary

Some churches told queer kids there were only two choices: keep your faith or keep yourself. They were wrong. Author Tim Schraeder Rodriguez joins the podcast to talk about his journey through conversion therapy, working behind the scenes with some of the biggest churches in America, and finally realizing that healing didn’t mean changing who he was. It meant letting go of the shame he was taught to carry. We talk about the hidden harm behind “loving” attempts to change LGBTQ people, what happens when theology turns into self-rejection, and how people can find belonging after religious trauma. Because a God who creates you probably isn’t shocked when you show up as yourself.