Claymore: Become Who You Are

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Your first 10 minutes each morning are already shaping you. The only question is whether they belong to your phone or to God. Jack sits down with Jeff to answer your questions. We hear from parents, mentors, and young men who feel the urgency of the moment and want a simple way to get their hearts back, find a wife or learn how to better love the one...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Evil doesn’t usually kick down the door. It slips in while we’re busy, distracted, and telling ourselves we’ll think about the big questions later. We talk about why so many men don’t choose evil outright, but still end up cooperating with it through drift, silence, and “just doing my job.” We use the idea of the banality of evil to name what’s happe...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Beauty can save a man’s life, or at least wake his heart up enough to fight for it. We sit down with Claymore Milites Christi Leaders, Dan McSweeney and David Avignone, to open the discussion on Act Two of the Claymore Battle Plan Handbook, “Awakened By Beauty,” and we start where modern culture rarely starts: Genesis and the simple claim that you ar...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Most men don’t fall apart all at once, they slowly wilt. When we live disconnected from God’s life, we chase quick fixes, stay anxious, and wonder why nothing feels solid. We use a blunt image to name it: we live like cut flowers, still “looking fine,” but cut off from the source that keeps the heart alive. We also lay out a simple way forward throug...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A single unverified story can change a generation if nobody is allowed to ask questions. We sit down with investigator Tom Hampson to unpack a Supreme Court decision that cracks open the “conversion therapy ban” narrative and forces states to meet strict scrutiny before they can police what therapists are allowed to say. We walk through what Chiles v...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Act One Discussion with Steve Thomas: I Wonder What Sort of Tale We’ve Fallen Into? “ I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived… for the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” “ I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived… for the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” [1] — Henry David Thoreau Dilecti Amici. Dear friends and brothers in Christ. Let’s...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” If you feel like something has shifted in your child’s school and you can’t quite name it, you’re not alone. We’re watching a real fight over who forms a child’s imagination, shapes their desires, and defines their identity: parents or institutions. Journalist and crime-fighter Tom Hampson returns to lay out why the conflict over school libraries, cl...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The world is loud, confusing, and relentless and it is shaping men into spectators. We refuse that. We start with a sharper claim: the battle isn’t mainly political, personal, or psychological. It’s spiritual. Drawing from Ephesians 6, we talk about what it means to fight “not against flesh and blood,” and why misidentifying the enemy wrecks marriage...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Temptation isn’t the end of the story and it isn’t even a sin. That one truth can crack open a path out of shame, especially for young men trying to live with integrity in a porn-saturated culture where the cycle of “try hard, cave, repeat” feels inevitable.  We talk through the Claymore approach to Catholic formation and spiritual battle using a rea...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” You want a better life, a better marriage, a better country in which to raise your kids? Here is the truth of things: The world changes when we pass down what is true, good, and beautiful to the next generation. What does that mean? For one thing It means that you and I must be willing to proclaim the Gospel to them in a way that reaches them where t...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Prometheus stole fire from the gods and paid the price. That ancient story is the lens we use to talk about a very modern question: who gets to hold the “fire” today, and what happens to ordinary people when truth, energy, and freedom are locked behind a new Olympus? We start with the ache a lot of people feel right now, especially young men: the sen...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A quiet chair facing the sunrise changed the way we see the battle that surrounds us. In the soft light before daybreak, we talk about the power of beauty to steady the heart, the reality of spiritual warfare hiding beneath cultural noise, and why so many young men feel numb, angry, or lost. From there we chart a clear path: awe that awakens desire,...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” What if the “Zombies” you pass on the sidewalk aren’t monsters, but wounded brothers and sisters starved for truth and love? We open with a frank look at cultural fog—how propaganda, scandal fatigue, and the worship of power dulls the conscience—and why so many can’t “see” evil even when it marches in the open.  Then we chart a path out: Download the...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The dream was simple: marry young, welcome children, and let love grow. Then biology didn’t cooperate. Author and radio host Leigh Fitzpatrick Sneed joins us to unpack the hidden landscape of infertility—the grief, the pressure to “just do IVF,” the awkward silences at church, and the slow work of finding a path that honors both conscience and desire...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” What if the first ten minutes of your day decided the shape of your soul? We open with a simple practice—knees before the phone—and follow it into the deeper question beneath every search for meaning: why pray at all? Along the way, we travel from the noise of constant distraction to the quiet center where identity, desire, and purpose are forged, an...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Feeling whiplash from a culture that calls chaos freedom and opinion truth? We step back and ask the question that reframes the noise: what sort of tale have we fallen into?  From the first lines of Genesis to the streets of our cities, we trace how order leads to freedom, how evil only distorts what is good, and why the human heart is the primary ba...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Start with this unsettling claim: You weren’t born in the wrong body—you were born in the wrong culture.   From there we dig into why so many young people feel disoriented, how institutions amplify that confusion, and what it takes to rebuild a sane, humane vision of the human person. Our guest, Daniel Gallagher of Ralston College, brings a rare mix...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A quiet awakening is spreading among young men who were raised on screens, shaped by porn, and numbed by AI simulations. We’ve watched them navigate a world where fake often passes for real and language tries to make the unthinkable sound humane.  When a viral doorstep exchange exposes the gap between “abortion is health care” and the instinctive hor...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A new name, a sharper mission, and a bold claim: the path back to national sanity runs through a return to truth about the human person. We open by sharing why our show now carries the Claymore banner and how the apostolate is walking with Gen Z men who sense, deep in their hearts, that life must be more than slogans, screens, and shifting rules. Tha...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The noise is relentless, the ground feels unstable, and desire gets treated like a problem to be numbed. We take a different route. Starting with a frank look at anxiety and public breakdown, we trace the deeper current beneath the headlines: a forgetting of God that leaves us building on sand. From there we make a bold, practical claim—desire is a c...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Jack and Florencia Moynihan—Catholic nutritionist, FEMM instructor, and author of Made Good—discuss the challenges faced by young women in today's culture, particularly regarding relationships, health, and understanding the feminine heart.  They explore the impact of modern societal norms on women's health, the importance of nutrition, and...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The episode opens on the 50-yard line and quickly shifts to a harder field: a claim that America is weathering a quiet, coordinated attack that looks nothing like the wars we recognize. We bring on investigator and researcher Tom Hampson to unpack how drugs, migration surges, financial pipelines, and propaganda can function as weapons when they’re wo...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Culture keeps telling women to chase autonomy and call it freedom, but the bill always arrives: isolation, fragile bonds, and a quiet ache that career can’t soothe. We sit down with scholar and author Carrie Gress to map the deeper story—how modern feminism operates like a shadow church with its own creed, sacrament, and evangelization, and why marri...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Headlines shout about border crises while our feeds trade compassion for outrage, but the deeper question remains: how do we love the stranger without surrendering the order that protects the weak?  Jack takes a hard look at the images and ideas shaping public imagination, starting with the Holy Family’s flight into Egypt and what it actually means f...