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".
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732 episodes
#735 A Personal Witness, Seeking Answers—And Why Living His Faith Truly Changed Everything
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 an...
#734 The Truth Behind the Contraceptive Mentality: And How It Reshaped Marriage and the Culture
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 w...
#733 The Sacred Romance: Redirecting Your Passions and Desires
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. ...
#732 "See No Evil" The Disappeared: Children, Trafficking, and Institutional Failure
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 youn...
#731 To Pope Leo: Sexual Matters Matter; The Integrated Vision of Chastity and Justice
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 Separa...
#730 Sean's Same-Sex Attraction, Marriage in the Beginning and Where Christ Points Us: We Discuss ACT Six
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 m...
#729 When Science Hits The Wall: Piety, Father Georges Lemaitre, and the Big Bang
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 of...
#728 Christ Appeals to the Resurrection: ACT Six
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 Ba...
#728 The Border and More: A Battle For The Soul of a Nation
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:...
#727 Discussing ACT Five: "The Fall and the Call to Be a Man of God" Marriage and the Family under attack
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 ...
#726 The Fall and the Call to Be a Man of God...ACT Five
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 Pl...
#725 Discussion ACT Four: "In the Beginning: Awe, Wonder, and a Cosmic Explosion of Love"
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 wit...
#724 Weak Men Create Hard Times: Tom Undercover, Nick Shirley Attacked, Predators Free, Kids Abused
Unveiling the Hidden Attacks on Family, Faith, and Free SpeechIn 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 integr...
#723 In the Beginning: Awe, Wonder, and a Cosmic Explosion of Love. ACT Four
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 m...
#722 The Claymore Battle Plan, Discussing ACT Three: Commissioned for Battle! The Importance of Spiritual Formation
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 battl...
#721 Implementing the Claymore 3-Step Battle Plan: Answering Your Questions!
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 o...
#720 Commissioned For Battle! The Importance of Spiritual Formation...ACT Three
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 t...
#719 Discussing ACT Two: Awakened By Beauty, The Opening Scene
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, “Aw...
#718 ACT Two: Awakened by Beauty: The Opening Scene
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 “lookin...
#717 The Supreme Court (8-1) Stands for Children Against the Talk Therapy Ban Movement
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 m...
#716 Discussing ACT One! Seeking Truth and Authentic Love in a Toxic Culture
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...
#715 ACT One: 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 l...
#714 The High-Stakes Battle For The Next Generation: Who Forms Them Wins The War
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 institut...
#713 The Claymore Battle Plan Introduction! Getting To The Heart of Things
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 ...
#712 Body and Soul Restoration In 2 Simple Steps: The 10-Minute Claymore Morning Ritual, And Meditate on One ACT Each Week
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” fee...