We are excited to be talking today with April Ajoy and Beecher Reuning! They are sharing with the Sunday School Dropouts crew their story of growing up in fundamentalism and purity culture, meeting and getting married under those systems and then navigating their way through discarding those doctrines and theology to find their way into the relationship they have today. It’s an episode you won’t want to miss!

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Guests:

April Ajoy can be found on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook @aprilajoy and on X at @aprilajoyr

Beecher Reuning can be found Instagram, TikTok and X @hellobeecher and on Facebook @beecher

Their podcast "The Non-Binary Marriage" can be found here.

Buzzfeed article about April can be found here

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Hosts:

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Music by Benjamin Faye Music @heytherebenji

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