Claymore: Become Who You Are

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Your day is getting formed before you even realize it and your phone is usually the one doing the forming. We walk through a simple on-ramp to the Claymore Battle Plan that cuts through the confusion and gives you a clear starting line you can actually stick with. We break down the two key resources the Claymore Battle Plan is built around: the Handb...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Gen Z men are walking back into church, and it isn’t because they found a new self-help Podcast. They’re waking up to the cost of the culture’s false promises and they’re hungry for something real: truth, mission, meaning and purpose and a Faith that restores the heart.  From there, the spiritual backdrop that sets the present stage we find ourselves...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” America is nearing its 250th birthday, but the argument I can’t shake is this: you don’t lose a country all at once, and you lose it from the inside out. I walk through why the real conflict isn’t simply left versus right, but a spiritual struggle over truth, the human heart, and the meaning of the human person. When a culture embraces moral relativi...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” America is nearing its 250th birthday, but the argument I can’t shake is this: you don’t lose a country all at once, and you lose it from the inside out. I walk through why the real conflict isn’t simply left versus right, but a spiritual struggle over truth, the human heart, and the meaning of the human person. When a culture embraces moral relativi...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Watching everyone else walk up for Communion while you stay in the pew does something to you. Our guest, Jack Ray, describes that exact moment as the spark that turned curiosity into a serious search for truth and eventually a conversion to the Catholic Church. He grew up in the Wheaton, Illinois area with a mostly positive view of Christianity, but...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” In a time when many are looking for answers, the message of Courage International and Father Gannon's insights serve as a beacon of hope. The call to truth, clarity, and fidelity in faith is more crucial now than ever. As we navigate these spiritual battles, let us remember to embrace the teachings of the Church with courage and compassion. Here...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A revolution can start with noble words and still end in terror. So why did the American Revolution produce a durable constitutional republic instead of the familiar slide into chaos and tyranny? We sit down with Tom Hampson to unpack the claim that America’s founding is a “minority miracle” and why the Declaration of Independence makes what may be t...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A former Anglican Priest says, “I lost the argument,” and somehow that turns into a battle for truth, conscience, and coming home. Kevin Middlesworth joins us to share the winding road from a devoted evangelical childhood, through Calvinist and Reformed theology, into Anglican priesthood, and finally into full communion with the Catholic Church. We t...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Confusion spreads fastest where people most need clarity, and right now a lot of young adults are walking back into the Catholic Church because they are done with half answers. Jack sits down with Father Brian Gannon, pastor of St Teresa Church in Connecticut and executive director of Courage International, to talk about truth, mercy, and the spiritu...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The strangest part of modern life is how easy it is to forget where we are. We sip coffee, scroll a phone, and act like reality is neutral, while the deeper story keeps moving under our feet. We step back and look at awe and wonder, not as a mood, but as a doorway into meaning, order, and purpose in creation and in the human body. We make a hard clai...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A single question can dismantle years of certainty: who decides what counts as Scripture in the first place? That’s where Cooper White’s journey gets gripping, because it wasn’t powered by rebellion or a bad church experience.  He and his wife were raised in loving evangelical families, deeply involved in ministry, and genuinely devoted to Jesus. But...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A single document from 1968 somehow describes the world we’re living in right now. We pick up Pope Paul VI’s Humanae Vitae and ask a blunt question: if contraception was supposed to make sex safer, marriage easier, and society calmer, why are we surrounded by divorce, pornography, fatherlessness, hookup culture, and a deep confusion about identity an...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” In a world that often feels disconnected from the divine, many of us grapple with profound questions about identity, purpose, and love. Saint Catherine of Siena once said that if you become who you truly are, you would light the world on fire. This echoes the sentiments of John Paul II and Saint Athanasius, who spoke of the deep yearning inscribed in...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” 330,000 missing kids is not a talking point. It’s a flashing red warning that something is broken in how the U.S. Deep State handles unaccompanied migrant children, child welfare, and immigration enforcement. We walk through the story of a young teen released from federal custody who ends up working punishing overnight shifts, then widen the lens to...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The claim that issues surrounding sexuality should take secondary priority behind concerns like justice, equality, or freedom reflects a distinction that unfortunately many modern Catholics increasingly make. In truth It is a False Separation Between Sexual Morality and Justice. The Catholic tradition—has consistently rejected this division. John Pau...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” If you’ve ever felt like you got dropped into the middle of a movie and missed the first half, you know the quiet anxiety that follows. We start with a deceptively simple question from Stephen Covey: are you building your life with the end in mind, or just reacting to whatever hits you next? We pull from Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body and h...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A universe with a beginning is a strange kind of good news and it’s not just for physicists. We sit down with historian and prolific author Russell Lawson to follow a 2,500-year thread most people never hear: for centuries, doing science was often understood as a pious act, a way of reading creation with awe, patience, and humility. When that older p...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Your desires are not random, and they are not meant to be medicated into silence or fed with whatever the culture is selling. We slow down and take a hard, hopeful look at what the heart is really reaching for, using Acts Six of the Claymore Battle Plan and Jesus’ blunt words to the Sadducees about the resurrection. When you see the story in “three p...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The most disturbing stories at the border aren’t numbers, they’re names we never learn. We respond to a clip of reporter Ben Bergquam stepping outside a church to face protesters head-on, and the exchange becomes a window into something bigger: what happens to a culture when it trades truth for slogans and formation for outrage. We talk through the b...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A child can be treated like a purchase, and a pregnancy can be treated like a contract dispute. When that happens, we are not just arguing policy, we are watching the meaning of human dignity collapse in real time. I take you straight into the heart of Act Five, The Fall and the Call to Be a Man of God, and I name what I believe is the central confli...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” You can feel it, even if you can’t always name it: the pressure, the drift, the sense that something essential about love and manhood is under attack. We step into Act Five of the Claymore Battle Plan Handbook to name the fight without flinching. The claim is bold and clarifying: every man is made for adventure, the adventure is a battle, and the bat...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A teenage girl gets told her body is the problem, gets put on powerful drugs, and loses her breasts before she can even vote. That story isn’t just shocking. It forces a harder question: what happens to kids when adults replace real healing with “affirmation,” and when parents feel pressured to surrender their role out of fear? We’re joined by Fred S...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Unveiling the Hidden Attacks on Family, Faith, and Free Speech In this episode, Jack sits down with seasoned investigator and commentator Thomas Hampson to explore the deep-rooted threats to traditional values, free speech, and the integrity of our families. Their candid discussion sheds light on real-world agendas hiding behind laws, organizations,...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A 16-year-old girl receives a double mastectomy, later detransitions, and a jury awards $2 million in damages. That headline isn’t just a news cycle to us, it’s a flare shot into the night that forces a real question: what does the human body mean, and who is protecting the young when they’re most confused and vulnerable? I connect that crisis to the...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Evil rarely announces itself. More often it blends in, turns the temperature up one degree at a time, and convinces good people that numbness to sin is normal. Jack is with Claymore leader Dan McSweeney to talk plainly about the spiritual battle playing out in modern life and why so many young men feel drained, isolated, and stuck, even when everythi...