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The New Evangelicals Podcast

73. Losing My Religion // with Trey Pearson

The New Evangelicals Podcast

Tim Whitaker

News, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Politics

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Trey Pearson, former frontman for the Christian rock band Everyday Sunday, solo artist, and LGBTQIA activist, sits down with Tim to discuss Trey's coming out story. Trey explains his background in the conservative Evangelical church and how he became involved with the band Everyday Sunday. Tim and Trey discuss Trey's coming out story and what he lost as a result of his admission he was gay. Trey discusses his LGBTQIA activism. Lastly, Tim and Trey discuss music, Trey's new album, Somebody You Know, and Trey's recording process. Get mad with Mad Priest Coffee Follow us on Instagram: @thenewevangelicals Support Our Work Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.0

What's up everyone? Welcome. Hey, YouTube! I'm back on. Okay, we're back. Not that we had a ton of views through YouTube, but some people were requesting it and frankly the reason why I was not sharing to you

0:54.8

YouTube was because I did not have the time or bandwidth but now we have two people

0:58.8

helping us edit these videos and put them putting them on YouTube so a sincere thank you to them it's good to

1:04.6

be back I hope you are all doing well if you're a first time listener or

1:09.1

watcher welcome to the podcast my name is Tim I'm the host of the show we also as new

1:14.0

evangelicals do a bunch of other things run Instagram tick-top Twitter we do zoom

1:18.6

communities we have a Facebook community so we do a lot more than just podcasting but I like

1:24.4

podcasting because I like long-form conversations because so many of the topics

1:28.9

that we have to talk about require deep dives so on this episode of the podcast I brought on

1:34.7

Trey Pearson. Now I'm just gonna read a little bit of Trey's bio on his website

1:41.0

with his band Every Day, Trey Pearson has sold hundreds of

1:45.1

thousands of records and amassed millions of streams. He has scored five

1:49.6

number one US singles and 20 top 10 hits. His song, Wake Up, was the most played Christian

1:56.7

rock song of 2007. Now, Trey grew up in that world and he was married and then he came to grips with the reality that he was gay.

2:05.4

And I'm going to let him tell the rest of the story in this interview.

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