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🗓️ 10 April 2016
⏱️ 30 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm Hemmint Mehta and I'm Jessica Limke and you're listening to the |
0:08.7 | podcast for Friendly Atheist.com you can now listen to all of our episodes and see show notes at |
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0:26.2 | Tracey McBain is a former Methodist pastor and the first female member of the clergy project to publicly |
0:35.4 | come out as a non-believer. |
0:37.2 | She did that at the 2012 American Atheist Convention, so go big or go home. |
0:41.7 | She's now the director of the Hotline Project, |
0:43.5 | which we will talk about shortly. |
0:45.0 | Teresa, thank you so much for joining us. |
0:47.7 | Thank you. |
0:48.2 | I'm so happy to be here with you guys. |
0:50.4 | Absolutely. |
0:51.0 | So for people who are not familiar with you, can you tell us your story about you used to be a pastor? |
0:58.0 | Like that's for real. You did that as a career and then you stop believing which is kind I know this is one of those |
1:05.1 | we could talk an hour just about that but in a nutshell what happened yeah |
1:12.4 | definitely we could talk an hour because it's as with any person probably who's come out of religion. It's a process and I was serving as a pastor, thrilled with it, had always wanted to be a pastor to serve people, to serve God and wasn't even aware that anything was happening inside my mind. |
1:37.0 | I've always been a curious type of person and always wanted to learn that it's just still one of my |
1:45.4 | passions and that's I guess really what started it is just always trying to learn |
1:51.6 | never taking anybody's word for it, wanting to find the answer |
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