Claymore: Become Who You Are

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” October 22, the feast day of Saint John Paul II!   Jack reflects of the life of Saint John Paul II who never reduced Christianity to “be nicer” or “try harder.” He preached the practical reality that an encounter with Jesus Christ restores the heart, clarifies the mind, and gives us the courage to live in a world where darkness has spread.  His story...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A quiet morning at home turned into a pre-dawn raid with guns drawn and a house full of kids. That’s the moment Mark Houck describes when we talk about what happened after he stepped in as a dad at a pro-life prayer vigil outside Planned Parenthood in Philadelphia. He had been praying there for years, but when his son was harassed and he intervened,...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The easiest way to get lost in election season is to get involved in the vitriol or allow your emotions to manipulated and lose sight of the core issues.  Jack goes the other direction and puts a simple Christian framework on the table: picture a triangle; if the human heart, marriage and the family, form one corner of the base and with Christ and th...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Something feels different about the stakes right now, and it’s not just gas prices or party politics. The fight underneath the headlines is spiritual, and it runs straight through the family. When faith goes lukewarm, culture doesn’t stay neutral. It gets filled by whatever is loudest, most coercive, and most willing to redefine reality.  We walk thr...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Recorded on the feast day of Saint Therese of Lisieux. Her “Little Way” of humility, confidence, and love, a path to find life, when the world feels loud, divided, and spiritually confused. Jack reads Luke 10 and takes Jesus seriously when he sends disciples out like “lambs among wolves.” To bring love and truth, and peace, into the places we live, r...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Something feels different lately, like the pressure is rising and the stakes are getting clearer. We name that feeling for what it is: a spiritual battle that doesn’t start “out there,” but in the human heart, where truth competes with addiction, comfort, fear, and compromise. We pull threads from Scripture, Catholic spirituality, and spiritual warfa...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Something is forming the next generation right now, and it’s probably not neutral. We sit with a blunt premise: when a culture forgets God, human dignity gets severed from its source, and the dominoes start falling in homes, churches, and civic life. That’s not abstract theory to us, it shows up in anxious young people, fragile marriages, and a socie...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” “Child trafficking” can sound like something that happens somewhere else, to someone else’s kid, at the hands of strangers. But the harder truth is that some trafficking in the United States starts inside the home. The Trump Administration Stands for more than politics as normal. The Battle is Real and its between good and evil.  Read Tom's Arti...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Satan is real, the dragons are real, but the most dangerous ones rarely show up with smoke and fire. They show up as early wounds, distorted desires, and quiet lies that tell a man to stay hidden. We talk about what’s happening to the heart of a man in a porn-saturated culture, why so many boys encounter explicit content before they ever learn the in...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” When Christians ask where the answer to the evils of the age must begin, the first reply cannot be “they.” It must be “with me.” I have attended a lot of funerals this year—not as many weddings, and still fewer baptisms. It’s a sign of the times. Death it seems is still mandatory, the others optional...or so we think.  So, my dear friends, I want to...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Bishop Fulton Sheen’s 1974 diagnosis of a “crisis in Christendom” say this coming: family breakdown, media shaped by anti-Christian assumptions, and a society that slowly adjusts to decline like a frog in warming water.  We start with Nick Shirley’s reporting on alleged adult daycare fraud and the uncomfortable question it raises: when taxpayer money...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” If you feel like the ground shifted under parenting in the last decade, you’re not imagining it. We walk straight into the pressure points families are facing: explicit content showing up earlier, “comprehensive sexuality education” that goes far beyond biology, and a culture that treats truth as negotiable while asking kids to define identity before...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Anxiety is everywhere, but what if it isn’t just a personal problem, it’s a warning light? We sit with the hard reality Gen Z is naming out loud: depression, dark thoughts, and a constant sense that something is off. Then we make a bold case that your heart might be telling the truth about the world around you, and that the fastest way to lose yourse...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Most of us don’t need more religious trivia. We need a clear path that shows how a man actually changes. That’s why we brought back Cooper Bohn with Mark Schmidt co-hosting with me, and went deep on one of the most practical frameworks in the Catholic tradition: the purgative, illuminative, and unitive ways. We start with the real world where guys li...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A whole generation is being handed a worldview that feels “normal” only because they grew up in it, and it’s everywhere. We’re watching the results of human pulverization in real time: confusion about truth, freedom, love and a growing romance with Socialism. Yet, Socialism and Communism have never succeeded anywhere, and they always crush the human...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Something feels off right now, and it’s not just policy or elections. When the culture starts calling evil good and good evil, it’s easy to spiral into doom-scrolling, cynicism, and the quiet lie that nothing we do matters. I read a viral post that captures that dread, then I push back on the trap underneath it: outrage that never turns into action b...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A billionaire-by-today’s-standards heiress walks away from New York high society, gets disinherited for becoming Catholic, and ends up in a poor mountain town because a stigmatic friar tells her to stay. That’s Mary Pyle, and her hidden life helps explain why devotion to Padre Pio spread so far, especially among American soldiers who came home change...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Anxiety has a way of haunting the edges of your day, even when you’re praying and trying to do everything right. We start with a simple moment that turns intense fast: a bike ride, traffic that feels too close, and a rising sense that something is off. The turning point comes when we stop treating that fear like random noise and name what it often is...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A move for work sounds like a plain life update until the details start stacking up in ways you can’t unsee. Tim shares a real, personal testimony that begins with landing in Wheaton “randomly,” learning it’s packed with Churches and people of faith, including a strong Catholic community. From there, the story turns into a trail of moments that feel...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Something is shifting under the surface of American culture: Gen Z men are walking back into churches, asking blunt questions about truth, purpose, and what it means to live a good life. Recored before a live audience at St. Mary of Perpetual Help, we talk with Gen Z author John Kruger about his new book Dwelt Among Us: America’s Catholic Comeback ,...

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...