Claymore: Become Who You Are

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The year feels heavy, and not just because the headlines won’t let up. We name what so many feel but can’t quite articulate: mercy has been generous, but justice is near, and the gap between those two realities exposes where our hearts stand. From a controversial shooting to deeper cultural rifts, we trace how sin breeds lawlessness, how lawlessness...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” What if the biggest leak in our public safety net isn’t a lack of funding, but a lack of scrutiny? We sit down with investigator and journalist Tom Hampson to unpack the alleged Minnesota welfare fraud and use it as a lens for a deeper look at how bloated programs, weak oversight, and political incentives can turn help for the vulnerable into a marke...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The air feels heavier this year, like we’ve reached a hinge in history. We name that tension and call it what it is: a harvest moment. Not a date prediction, but a sober read on where the seeds of our culture have grown—especially around life in the womb and the meaning of marriage. We trace how those two pillars reveal everything else: when a societ...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” This conversation delves into the complex issues surrounding immigration, particularly through the lens of Christian teachings and historical context.  Tom and Jack discuss the misuse of the Holy Family as a symbol for open borders, the implications of immigration policies on society, and the challenges posed by human trafficking and exploitation. Th...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” In this conversation, Jack and Tom Hampson discuss the paradox of food insecurity in America, despite its wealth. They explore the evolution of food banks into a multi-billion dollar industry that manages poverty rather than alleviating it. The discussion highlights the bureaucratic inefficiencies, the role of corporate donations, and the need for lo...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Recently, while walking through my neighborhood and looking at Christmas decorations, I came upon a simple Nativity scene. Nothing extravagant. Just Mary. Joseph. A child lying in straw. And it stopped me. Because that scene reveals something our culture is trying desperately to erase: God chose to enter the world through a family. Not through a syst...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Love isn’t a mood that lasts forever; it’s a mission that matures.  We trace the arc from infatuation to mature love, explaining what happens when the early hormone rush fades and why that moment is the invitation to choose each other anew. Costanza reframes “submission” as surrendering the urge to fix your spouse and learning to love the person you...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A late recording on the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe turns into a fierce meditation on a world that feels unhinged and the mother who leads us to her Son. We trace a throughline from John’s Gospel and the order of creation to Juan Diego’s roses in winter and the tilma that sparked eight million conversions, then ask what those signs say about today...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Advent sharpens our memory and our courage, and that’s where we start: gratitude for the return of public faith and a renewed freedom to say Merry Christmas without apology. From there we move straight into the central question young people are asking in a noisy, anxious age: What is the truth, and how do I live it? We lay out the Claymore battle pla...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Jack discusses the decline of Western civilization, emphasizing the importance of faith, family, and cultural identity. He highlights the spiritual battle against ideologies that threaten individual identity and moral values.  He then calls for action through the Claymore Battle Plan, urging individuals to take responsibility and engage in the fight...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Tom Hampson is with Jack to dig into the newly released HHS review of youth gender medicine and what it asserts about puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgery for minors. You’ll hear why many countries are recalibrating toward psychotherapy and mental health support, what “gold standard science” should look like in pediatric care, and how lo...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Feeling pressured to pick between Socialism and Capitalism? We challenge that trap and make a case for a third way that takes human dignity seriously, starts in the heart, and rebuilds culture from the ground up. We walk through why many young people gravitate toward socialism when family and schools fail them, and why unconstrained capitalism—when s...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” What if the love you’ve been searching for has been quietly pursuing you all along? That’s the heartbeat of this conversation with Greg Willits—author, award-winning media producer, and co-founder of Rosary Army —who opens up about childhood abuse, early exposure to pornography, depression, anxiety, and a late-stage collapse that forced him to seek r...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The root of the cultural chaos we are experiencing is a surrender of the Truth of things!   Today Jack takes you inside a viral confrontation over women’s locker rooms, presses into why definitions matter for safety and law, and asks a harder question most debates skip: are we created with purpose and order, or are we accidents of history free to red...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Beauty isn’t a filter on life; it’s a way to understand it, and ourselves.  Jack sits down with Artist-photographer and author Erik Stensland to explore how a season of crushing burnout in the Balkans led him toward solitude, quiet attention, and a life reoriented by wonder in Rocky Mountain National Park.  Together we unpack why silence feels unbear...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” What if the ache you feel isn’t a flaw to fix but a fire to aim? We open with the shocking power of eros—the sudden arrest of beauty, the pulse of attraction—and follow it to its true end: a life of self-gift that can heal hearts, families, and even a nation fraying at the seams. The story moves from a teenage moment of reverent awe to the Cross itse...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A hidden magazine in fifth grade. A dopamine hit. A secret that follows a boy into high school, dating, and marriage. That’s how our conversation starts, and from there we get honest about why porn isn’t just a bad habit—it’s a widespread, tech-fueled crisis that reshapes the brain, hollows out intimacy, and turns love into consumption. With coach an...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A generation raised on endless noise is choosing silence, beauty, and order. We sit down with Catholic writer and Latin Mass altar server Jacob Plante to explore why Gen Z is showing up at the traditional Latin Mass in growing numbers Jacob shares his own story of a deeper conversion during the COVID years and digs into the numbers and the narrative:...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Start with the unpopular truth: the surest privilege isn’t race, money or status, it’s growing up with a married mom and dad who stay together.  Then the shock of Charlie Kirk’s assassination... but it’s the two sided response that sheds light on where we are as a people—those who would celebrate the death of a loving husband and father to two young...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” If your heart feels restless and the world feels loud, you’re not broken—you’re being called. We dive into the ache beneath anxiety and distraction and show how that desire is the starting line of a meaningful life. First the heart stirs, then the culture collides with it, and finally the Gospel speaks into both with clarity and love. That simple seq...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Headlines say one thing, moral logic says another. We sat down with Phil Lawler to unpack the storm around a lifetime award for Senator Dick Durbin, the so-called “consistent ethic of life,” climate pageantry, and immigration debates—and to draw bright lines between intrinsic evils and prudential judgments. If you’ve felt whiplash from Vatican sound...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A feast day, a friend, and a fight worth entering. We set the stage with Saint John Paul II, the Eucharist, and Our Lady of Fatima, then welcome John Preiss, a Catholic convert and director of the Fatima Family Apostolate, to share how a quiet hour before the Blessed Sacrament can upend a life, launch a mission, and heal a home. John’s story moves fr...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” What if the question “What do I still lack?” is the doorway to your real vocation? We follow that question from the Gospel of the rich young man into the very real struggles of modern life—noise, distraction, and the hunger to be seen—and then further into a surprising WWII encounter with Padre Pio that ignites a forgotten calling. We share Act 7 of...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Let’s be honest: the internet rewards outrage, not holiness. We wanted to cut through the noise and ask a harder question—what does it take to share the faith without losing your soul? With Bobby Frederickson (The Catholic Couple, Purposely Catholic ) , we dig into the quiet practices and gritty virtues that turn zeal into steady witness: daily silen...

Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” What if the ache you feel isn’t your enemy but a compass that points you to true north? We take a clear-eyed look at desire, identity, and destiny through the lens of Scripture and John Paul II’s theology of the body, asking how eros can be lifted into real love without denying the body or the heart. Starting with our origin as image-bearers—male and...