Clemenz With a ”Z” Podcast

By Roy Clemenz

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Episodes: 239

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This podcast is me sharing stories as I search for balance in an imbalanced world. I discuss topics such as fatherhood, masculinity, and religion through stories of myself and interviews.

Episode Date
EP 239 The Other Half of the Story: How an Instagram reel and Toy Story 5 reminded me that deconstruction is only half the story
Jul 01, 2026
EP 238 HE RAN: The Father's Day sermon I want to tell
Jun 24, 2026
EP 237 The Space Between the Notes: What music taught me about mystery, meaning, and being human
Jun 14, 2026
EP 236 The Question In The Backseat: On Sacred Questions, Small Hands, and the Emotional World We Build Around Faith
Jun 03, 2026
EP 235 The Messy Middle: On Certainty, Complexity, and the Strange Freedom of Not Having It All Figured Out
May 29, 2026
EP 234 The Sting in the Hug: What Happens When Men Are Taught to Fear Tenderness
May 22, 2026
EP 233 Not Back. Somewhere New: On Reconstruction, Permission, and the Wreckage We Leave Behind
May 18, 2026
EP 232 The Six Questions: What third graders know about reading that most Bible readers were never taught
May 11, 2026
EP 231: Big Ideas, Small Readings: What a single verse, a men's ministry book, and your Instagram feed have in common
Apr 17, 2026
EP 230: We Were In a Cult? Sara and Lauren's Story
Apr 07, 2026
EP 229 Ten Extra Steps: A grocery store parking lot and the weight of small choices
Mar 30, 2026
EP 228 Jesus Rode a Donkey (2026 Re-Release): Two parades entered Jerusalem, power from the west, peace from the east. We’re still choosing between them.
Mar 29, 2026
EP 227 The Happiness I Don’t Believe In: On Chasing, Conditioning, and the Fear of What’s Already Here
Mar 26, 2026
Ep 226: We Were In a Cult? Katja's Story
Mar 23, 2026
EP 225 Legacy or Leverage: A Sunday morning, a second bucket, and the long shadow of how we learned to give
Mar 18, 2026
EP 224 Yesterday’s Answers: How the past shapes us and how it sometimes limits us
Mar 13, 2026
EP 223 Essence Isn’t the Same as Capacity: On Original Sin, Children, and the Cost of Starting with Shame
Mar 01, 2026
EP 222 Higher Ways? Rethinking Mystery, Justice, and the God We Inherited
Feb 27, 2026
EP 221 Scars Don’t Shout: On Integration, Memory, and the Hum of Healing
Feb 23, 2026
EP 220 Yard Signs: Purpose, Dignity, and the Paths We Call “Less”
Feb 18, 2026
EP 219: We Were In a Cult? Stef's Story
Feb 16, 2026
EP 218 Raised in the Kingdom: Growing Up Inside the Place and Learning to Trust Myself Again
Feb 13, 2026
EP 217: Gentle vs. Godly? Why Parenting Isn’t an Either/Or Choice
Feb 09, 2026
EP 216 Critique Is Not Persecution: Why pushback isn’t proof you’re right
Jan 30, 2026
EP 215 Hot Wheels at 2am: Access, fear, and how children learn they belong
Jan 28, 2026
EP 214 Asking the Wrong Questions: Why our debates keep dividing us and how Jesus kept redirecting the conversation
Jan 12, 2026
EP 213 Let It Breathe: Choosing silence in a world that never stops talking
Jan 09, 2026
EP 212 Boxes, Beginnings, and Becoming
Jan 05, 2026
Ep 211 Every Hero Has a Conflict: What Katt Williams, Donald Miller, and the Hero’s Journey taught me about resilience.
Oct 17, 2025
EP 210 Coffee Mug Theology: How we turned ancient hope into a slogan and what we lost along the way.
Oct 07, 2025
EP 209 Slaying Dragons, Finding Bliss: Rethinking the dragon, the prize, and what it means to follow your bliss.
Oct 03, 2025
EP 208 Into the Void: What Thunderbolts, Robin Williams, and Jesus Teach Us About Empathy
Sep 30, 2025
EP 207 Golden Buzzer Gospel: Finding Joy, Awe, and Belonging in the Most Unexpected Places
Sep 25, 2025
EP 206 The Village Is Sick: Grief, Belonging, and the Possibility of Healing Together
Sep 23, 2025
EP 205 Comfort, Not Bruises: God’s Discipline, Parenting, and Why Spanking Only Breeds Domestication
Sep 17, 2025
EP 204 Off the Island: Thomas Merton, Mirrors, and Learning to Affirm Others
Sep 12, 2025
EP 203 Sanitizing Our Heroes: What We Lose When We File Down the Edges of Truth
Sep 10, 2025
EP 202: Who’s Right? And is that even the right question anymore?
Sep 04, 2025
EP 201 Speaking to the Human: The Radical Act of Seeing the Person Before the Problem
Sep 02, 2025
EP 200 Looking Past the Finger: How Marvel, the Bible, and Gollum Teach Us the Power of Metaphor
Aug 14, 2025
EP 199 Be Suspicious of Simple Answers: Punk Rock, Jesus, and Why the Best Truths Live in the Messy Middle
Aug 12, 2025
EP 198 The Whole Elephant: What if no one sees the full picture and that’s the point?
Aug 08, 2025
Glue, Guitars, and the Gospel of Fear: Deconstructing the “Divine Truths” of a Marriage Retreat Sermon
Aug 06, 2025
EP 196 We Are the Problem, We Are the Solution: On wolves, gardens, and the mirror we avoid.
Jul 31, 2025
EP 195 Missing the Mark: Reframing Sin, Choice, and the Weight We Carry
Jul 29, 2025
EP 194 Fear Wants Control. Boys Want More: Agency, Tenderness, and Raising Whole Humans
Jul 24, 2025
EP 193 We Owe Thomas an Apology: The Gift of Doubt
Jul 22, 2025
EP 192 Faith, Doubt, and the Space Between: A Conversation with "The Skeptic Pastor"
Jul 15, 2025
EP 191 Kmart, Paintball, and the Gospel According to Pressure: A Chapter From This Was Supposed To Be The Place
Jul 03, 2025
EP: 190 We Were In a Cult? Tara's Story
Jul 01, 2025
EP 189 Cherry-Picked Manhood: On Warrior Sermons, Selective Literalism, and the Men We’re Actually Forming
Jun 30, 2025
EP 188 This Isn’t the Hill: A straight man’s honest reflection on queerness, faith, and the battles that don’t need to be fought.
Jun 26, 2025
Rooms We Rented, Stories We Kept: A chapter from This Was Supposed to Be the Place
Jun 23, 2025
EP 186: The Weight Was Never Yours, A Father’s Day Rebellion Against Performed Masculinity
Jun 20, 2025
EP 185: Paying Off the Debt of Idiots? A meditation on manhood, silence, and what it feels like to have emotions in a world built by louder men.
Jun 18, 2025
EP 184 I Thought This Was the Thing (It Wasn’t): A love story with teaching—and a slow, messy breakup.
Jun 16, 2025
EP 183 Pink, Part Deux: What I’m Still Thinking About After the Vans
Jun 12, 2025
EP 182 You Are Not That Important: A Reflection on Humility, Interdependence, and True Significance
Jun 10, 2025
EP 181 This Was Supposed To be The Place #9 The Swamp
Jun 06, 2025
EP 180: The Pink Sparkly Vans & The Fear We Pass Down
Jun 04, 2025
EP 179: If You’re All About the Destination… Reclaiming Presence in a Religion Obsessed with the End
Jun 02, 2025
EP 178: I Inherited a Backpack
May 21, 2025
EP 177: We Were In a Cult? Emma's Story
May 19, 2025
EP 176: From Obedience to Ownership. Leaving a Cult and Finding Her Voice — with Ari from The Disallusioned Podcast
May 15, 2025
EP 175 You Don’t Have to Chase It: Why the Kingdom of God Was Never Out There
May 14, 2025
EP 174 This Was Supposed To Be the Place #9 "When the Bible Becomes an Idol"
May 12, 2025
EP 173: God’s Design? Questioning Roles, Reclaiming Partnership, and Letting Love Be the Blueprint
May 07, 2025
EP 172: We Were In a Cult? Eugene's Story
May 05, 2025
EP 171 In a Cabin in the Woods: Tending the Fire, Facing the Fear, and Finally Getting Quiet
Apr 30, 2025
EP 170: The Hard Work of Healing: A Deeper Conversation with Alan Allard
Apr 28, 2025
EP 169 Backstage Coffee, Punk Rock Kindness, and Letting People Be People: The Quiet Gospel
Apr 24, 2025
EP 168 This Was Supposed to Be the Place #8: The Cross, The Crowd, and the Line We Don't Talk about
Apr 22, 2025
EP 167 This Was Supposed The Place #7: From Church to Cult of Personality: Pastor Worship and the Idolatry of Leadership
Apr 18, 2025
EP 166 The Land Of "Should": The Nicely Packaged Pressure That Follows You Everywhere
Apr 15, 2025
EP 165 This Was Supposed To Be The Place #6: We Dont Worship Idols, Just Everything About Church
Apr 10, 2025
EP 164: We Were In a Cult? Greg's Story
Apr 08, 2025
EP 163 This Was Supposed to Be the Place #5: From Shame to Something Sacred
Apr 02, 2025
EP 162 A Tale of 2 Concerts: From the Church Stage to the Sticky Floor
Mar 31, 2025
EP 161 The Truth About Control: A journal, a quote, and the quiet cracking underneath it all.
Mar 28, 2025
EP 160 This Was Supposed To Be The Place #4: Faith, Fear, and the God I Was Taught to Obey Unpacking obedience, manipulation, and the slow work of healing.
Mar 27, 2025
EP 159 We Were In a Cult? Sachiko's Story
Mar 26, 2025
EP 158: A Skeptic's Heart: Faith, Healing, and the Courage to Keep Searching
Mar 18, 2025
EP 157 Why Empathy, and Why compassion? Is Empathy Really Toxic Or Do you Just need an Excuse to Be a Jerk?
Mar 13, 2025
EP 156 This Was Supposed To Be The Place #3: The Devil’s Doorstep, How Purity Culture Controlled Our Thoughts, Bodies, and Relationships
Mar 12, 2025
EP 155 Everyone Wants the Lollipop: Faith, Certainty, and the Sweet, Sweet Taste of Belonging
Mar 05, 2025
EP 154 We Were In a Cult? Ruthanna and Davis' Story
Mar 03, 2025
EP 153 Love Ain’t Gonna Say Itself: The Power of Words in Parenting and Why It’s Worth It
Feb 27, 2025
EP 152 THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE PLACE EP: 2 “THIRD TIMES THE CHARM: Finding Myself After Leaving (Again... and Again)”
Feb 25, 2025
EP 151 Praise, Profit, and Pyrotechnics: The Manufactured Sound of Modern Worship
Feb 19, 2025
EP 150 This Was Supposed To Be The Place #1: I was In a Cult
Feb 18, 2025
EP 149 I asked my wife: "I was in a cult?"
Feb 17, 2025
EP 148 Suppress, Explode, Repeat: How I Learned to Stop Fighting Anger and Start Listening to It
Feb 12, 2025
EP 147 Juggling Glass Balls: What Are Your Priorities as a Parent?
Feb 07, 2025
EP 146 Hold My Apple, I’m Finding Gratitude
Feb 06, 2025
EP 145 Black Coffee, Camo Bibles, and Sissy Sticks: Faith, Fragile Manhood, and the Things That Shouldn’t Matter
Jan 30, 2025
EP 144 We Were In a Cult? Ann's Story
Jan 27, 2025
EP 143 The Price Of Worship
Jan 24, 2025
EP 142 We Were In a Cult? Liz's Story
Jan 21, 2025
EP. 141 Baptism or Branding? Reflecting on Sacred Acts in Modern Churches
Jan 15, 2025
EP 140 We Were In a Cult? Diana's Story
Jan 13, 2025
EP 139 We Were In a Cult? Nat's Story
Jan 07, 2025
EP 138 Follow Up With Kesha
Dec 23, 2024
EP 137 We Were In a Cult? Max's Story
Dec 22, 2024
EP 136 We Were In a Cult? Chris' Story
Nov 25, 2024
EP 135 I Am One Of The Free (for my ancestors)
Nov 21, 2024
EP 134 We Were In a Cult? Emma's Story
Nov 18, 2024
EP 133 Savor This World, Savor This Life
Nov 14, 2024
EP 132 We Were In a Cult? Lian's Story
Nov 11, 2024
EP 131 Consuming Church Culture
Nov 08, 2024
EP 130 "The Mask"
Nov 06, 2024
EP 129 We Were In a Cult? Dwan's Story
Nov 04, 2024
EP 128 A Word On Healing
Oct 31, 2024
EP 127 "The Pressure to Do"
Oct 30, 2024
EP 126 A Story of Healing with Alan Allard
Oct 28, 2024
EP 125 The Laughing Heart
Oct 23, 2024
EP 124 We Were In a Cult? Nicole's Story
Oct 21, 2024
EP 123 "Is church just an accepted cult?" Why can't we listen to Landslide?
Oct 16, 2024
EP 122: "Trees" and "It's Time To Stop Striving"
Oct 15, 2024
EP 121 We Were In a Cult? AnneMarie's Story
Oct 14, 2024
EP 120 A Bit of a Reintroduction
Oct 10, 2024
EP 119 We Were In a Cult? Asha's Story
Oct 07, 2024
EP 118 We Were In a Cult? Jakob's Story
Sep 30, 2024
EP 117 We Were In a Cult? Jennifer's Story
Sep 23, 2024
EP 116 We Were In a Cult? Joselyn's Story
Sep 17, 2024
EP 115 We Were In a Cult? Shari's Story
Sep 09, 2024
EP 114 Talking About Anxiety With Miles
Aug 28, 2024
EP 113 Grief Talk With Liz
Aug 23, 2024
EP 112 We Were In a Cult? Drew #2's Story
Aug 21, 2024
EP 111 We Were In a Cult? Kathi's Story
Aug 14, 2024
EP 110 Answering Your Questions With Nadine
Aug 08, 2024
EP 109 We Were In a Cult? Joabis' Story
Aug 05, 2024
EP 108 We Were In a Cult? Rachel's Story
Jul 31, 2024
EP 107 We Were In a Cult? Justine's Story
Jul 18, 2024
EP 106 We Were In a Cult? Anabel's Story
Jul 07, 2024
EP 105 We Were In a Cult? Nadine's Story
Jun 24, 2024
EP 104 We Were In a Cult? Marissa's Story
Jun 19, 2024
EP. 103 We Were In a Cult? Alex's Story
Jun 10, 2024
EP 102 We Were In a Cult? Amy's Story
Jun 06, 2024
EP. 101 DADTALK with Todd
Jun 03, 2024
EP. 100 Grief and Harambe
May 29, 2024
EP. 99 Interview with Jennifer Green of Seven Cities Midwifery
May 23, 2024
EP. 98 Tania's Story Part 2
May 22, 2024
EP. 97 We Were In a Cult? Tania's Story
May 20, 2024
EP. 96 DADTALK with TJ
May 16, 2024
EP. 95 We Were In a Cult? Drew's Story
May 13, 2024
Ep. 94 We Were In a Cult? Ljuba's Story
May 06, 2024
EP. 93 Who Is Your Samaritan?
May 05, 2024
EP. 92 Just Because It was Doesn't Mean It Has To Be.
May 02, 2024
EP. 91 We Were In a Cult? Liz's Story
Apr 29, 2024
EP. 90 Jesus and Zaccheaus
Apr 28, 2024
Ep. 89 The Search Is The Point
Apr 22, 2024
EP. 88 We Were In a Cult? Diane's Story
Apr 22, 2024
EP. 87 We Were In a Cult? Chelsey's Story
Apr 15, 2024
EP. 86 Bonus Episode! Kesia's Story pt. 2
Apr 09, 2024
EP. 85 DADTALK with my Father In Law Rick
Apr 08, 2024
EP. 84 We Were In a Cult? TJ's Story
Apr 08, 2024
EP. 83 We Were In a Cult? Austin Noll's Story
Apr 01, 2024
EP. 82 Jesus Rode A Donkey
Mar 27, 2024
EP. 81 We Were In a Cult? Kesia's Story
Mar 25, 2024
EP. 80 DADTALK with Dan Ellis
Mar 21, 2024
EP. 79 We Were In a Cult? Kristin's Story
Mar 18, 2024
EP. 78 We Were In a Cult? Steph's Story
Mar 03, 2024
EP. 77 It's Been 5 Years
Mar 02, 2024
EP. 76 We Were In a Cult? Jon's Story
Feb 26, 2024
EP. 75 All Sheep Matter? Communion message for week of Feb. 19th
Feb 20, 2024
EP. 74 We Were In a Cult? Karen's Story
Feb 18, 2024
EP. 73 Communion Message for Week of Feb. 12th
Feb 12, 2024
EP. 72 We Were In a Cult? Stephanie's Story
Feb 12, 2024
EP. 71 We Were In a Cult? Phil's Story
Feb 06, 2024
EP. 70 Communion Message for Week of January 27th
Jan 29, 2024
EP. 69 We Were In a Cult? Erin's Story
Jan 29, 2024
Ep. 68 Heredity isn’t Destiny
Jan 23, 2024
EP. 67 Communion Message for January 22nd
Jan 22, 2024
EP. 66 Sunday Communion Message for January 14th
Jan 14, 2024
EP 65 DADTALK with Chris
Jan 13, 2024
EP. 64 Sunday Communion January 7th
Jan 07, 2024
EP.63”We Were In a Cult?” Myron’s Story
Jan 04, 2024
EP. 62 DADTALK with Nick P.
Dec 28, 2023
EP 61 The Music That Made Us
Dec 09, 2023
EP. 60 We Were In a Cult? Todd’s Story
Nov 30, 2023
EP. 59 DADTALK With Author Nick Adams
Nov 28, 2023
EP. 58 ”We Were In A Cult?” Joe’s Story
Nov 21, 2023
EP. 57 The Power of The Pause
Nov 18, 2023
EP. 56 This Was Suppose To Be The Place: Manipulation of our time and money
Nov 15, 2023
EP. 55 We Were in a Cult? Shannon’s Story
Nov 10, 2023
EP. 54 A DADTALK Divided With Jeremy
Nov 10, 2023
EP. 53 Theology of Convenience and the Dark Side of Faith
Nov 03, 2023
EP 52 We Were In a Cult? Luke’s Story
Oct 30, 2023
EP 51 We Were In A Cult? Keisha’s Story
Oct 23, 2023
DADTALK with Steve Gibson
Oct 19, 2023
Giving Your Needs a Voice
Oct 17, 2023
DADTALK With New Andrew
Sep 23, 2023
DADTALK With Alex
Sep 15, 2023
Celebrate The Inch And Comparison is the Thief Of Joy
Sep 08, 2023
Creating Habits
Aug 30, 2023
Lessons From Dan
Jul 01, 2023
Conversations on male initiation episode 3
Jun 28, 2023
DADTALK with Brian Kelley
May 10, 2023
This Was Suppose To Be The Place: One Man, One Vision, One Mission
May 04, 2023
DADTALK with Morgan
Apr 21, 2023
Male Initiation Episode 2: You are not important, and your life is not about you.
Mar 23, 2023
DADTALK with Preston
Feb 20, 2023
Conversations On Male Initiation Episode 1
Feb 14, 2023
Mommo Talk With Racheal
Jul 12, 2022
Jim Interviewed Me
Jul 06, 2022
DADTALK with Rodney
Jun 22, 2022
DADTALK with Dan
Apr 24, 2022
This Was Suppose To Be The Place: Dating, sex and relationships in the church
Apr 12, 2022
DADTALKwith Steve
Mar 13, 2022
This Was Suppose to Be the Place: We were the only ones doing it right
Mar 02, 2022
We Were In a Cult? Jim and I’s stories
Feb 13, 2022
Dad Talk with Ryan
Jan 30, 2022
DADTALK With Drew
Oct 07, 2021
Episode 26. A little bit of evening inspiration
Sep 28, 2021
DADTALK with Joe
Jul 24, 2021
DADTALK with Casey
May 30, 2021
EP 23 DADTALK with Miles
Apr 20, 2021
Lets Talk About Sin
Jan 13, 2021
DADTALK with Jay
Jan 04, 2021
My Faith Journey
Dec 10, 2020
DADTALK with Dr. Bob
Aug 26, 2020
Whiskey and God
Aug 12, 2020
DADTALK Recap
Aug 06, 2020
DADTALK with Travis
Jun 27, 2020
DADTALK with Jim
Apr 24, 2020
Grief Follow Up Episode
Apr 21, 2020
DADTALK with Dustin
Mar 29, 2020
Grief Episode Take #6
Mar 26, 2020
Dad Talk with Jared
Oct 21, 2019
DADTALK with Pat Ryan
Oct 12, 2019
EP 9 DADTALK with Trevor
Sep 07, 2019
EP. 8 Church Talk with Josh
Aug 11, 2019
EP. 7 Conversations
Aug 08, 2019
EP. 6 DADTALK with Joshua Webster
Jul 25, 2019
EP. 5 DADTALK with John Streit
Jul 20, 2019
EP. 4 DADTALK with Dr. Marco Accordo
Jul 09, 2019
EP. 3 My Journey to Find Balance for the times when life is anything but that
Jun 26, 2019
EP. 2 DADTALK #1 with Andrew
Mar 12, 2019
EP. 1 The Origin Story
Mar 02, 2019