Claymore: Become Who You Are
What’s the meaning and purpose of my life? What is my true identity? Why were we created male and female? How do I find happiness, joy and peace? How do I find love that lasts, forever? These are the timeless questions of the human heart. Join Jack Rigert and his guests for lively insights, reading the signs of our times through the lens of Catholic Teaching and the insights of Saint John Paul ll to guide us.
Saint Catherine of Siena said "Become who you are and you would set the world on fire".
Episodes
758 episodes
#761 In A Matter of Life and Death; Choose Life! On the Feast Day of Saint Therese
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 wh...
#760 A Spiritual Awakening: The World Is Passing Away, Saint John Paul II and Archbishop Fulton Sheen: Prophets for Our Time
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 addictio...
#759 The Spirit of New Things: Pope Leo XIII, John Paul II, and the Battle for the Human Person
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...
#758 Running Out of Time? Why Trump Matters, 60 Million Adults Abused As Children, The "Safe Home" That Isn't
“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 Administratio...
#757 Slaying Dragons; Restoring the Heart of a Man... with Special Guest C.S. Lewis
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 ...
#756 "Why Do You Stand Here Idle?" The Universal Call to Holiness
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 s...
#755 Bishop Fulton Sheen’s Warning, Nick Shirley Exposes Corruption, Slaughter of the Innocents, People Demand a Ruler
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 wit...
#754 Stolen Innocence
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 f...
#753 Gen Z Anxiety, GTA 6, The Frog in the Pot, and Signals Coming Up From the Heart
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 th...
#752 The Catholic Spiritual Life Has A Map You Can Follow: A Path To Union With God
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 C...
#751 Young Adults Romanticize Socialism, But It Will Fail Them
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 ...
#750 Meet Saint Pier Giorgio Frassati: From Apathy To Action In An Upside-Down World!
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 ...
#749 Padre Pio's American Daughter: The Story of Mary Pyle
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 he...
#748 Christ Is The Light: Why A World Without The Supernatural Becomes Unnatural
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...
#747 What If The “Random” Parts Of Your Life Aren’t Random: Tim's Claymore Witness Story
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 ...
#746 Young Men Discerning Truth Amid Cultural Chaos w Gen Z Author John Krueger (+Bonus Panel Discussion)
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 H...
#745 New Here? Let's Get Started!
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 ...
#744 How Much Power Does Satan Have? Pope Leo XIII's Terrifying Vision: The Claymore Battle For Hearts
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 Fait...
#743 The Battlefield of the Human Heart: Between Good and Evil
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 strug...
#742 Family, Culture, and Patriotism--The Soul of a Nation
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 strug...
#741 Digging For Treasure: A Young Man Finds Home In the Catholic Church
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...
# 740 Father Gannon of Courage International: The Church's Unchanging Morality, Love Other's in the Truth
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 spir...
#739 250 Years: The Miracle Of America's Inalienable Rights That Come From God, Not From the Government
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 th...
#738 Kevin's Journey From Anglican Priest to Catholicism
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...
#737 Fr. Brian Gannon, Executive Dir. of Courage Intl: "Intellectually Dishonest Document Wounds the Church"
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...