Introducing Insight to Incite's "SMITE CLUB"

A new sub-blog of exclusive content for paid subscribers.

For the past several months, I’ve been posting supplemental content for paid subscribers at Insight to Incite under a little sub-blog called Prairie Pilgrim Farms. This was never intended to be the main attraction. It was simply a bonus — a side-door peek into one of my personal passions: family preparedness, self-sufficiency, and the gritty, often unglamorous realities of modern homesteading.

Those posts were for people who care about chickens and compost, bug-out bags and bunker mentality, heirloom seeds and the hidden vulnerabilities of the global food supply chain. They were written for those who, like me, feel the thrum of urgency beneath our cultural moment — that ever-present sense that we’d better know how to feed ourselves, heat our homes, and defend our families when the lights go out. It was me giving you, the loyal and generous paid subscriber, a little more bang for your buck.

But here’s the plain truth: I’ve exhausted my expertise in that department — at least in terms of what I can responsibly pass along in written form. I’ve covered what I know, and I don’t intend to bluff my way into territory I haven’t trod. While I’ll still occasionally post at Prairie Pilgrim Farms when inspiration strikes or a new insight emerges from my own work in the field, I’m stepping back from regular posting there.

That doesn’t mean I’m taking away your bonus content. Far from it. It just means it’s time to pivot.

So, allow me to introduce something I’m far from running out of steam on: Smite Club.

Yes, you read that right.

Insight to Incite’s Smite Club is a brand new sub-blog — exclusively for paid subscribers — where I will begin publishing biographical sketches, battlefield theology, and boots-on-the-ground inspiration from the fighting side of the Christian faith.

We are the Church militant. But too many have forgotten that.

Too many Christians today have been catechized into softness. Meekness has been redefined as weakness. Bravery has been exchanged for winsomeness. And the rugged manliness of the apostles, martyrs, reformers, and missionaries has been papered over by a sanitized, soy-soaked, NPR Christianity that would’ve never survived the first century, let alone the Roman coliseum.

That’s why Smite Club will be helpful. In these posts, I’ll be drawing from the ancient past and the recent present to showcase the type of men who stood toe-to-toe with demons and tyrants, who spat in the eye of empire, who bled and burned and bore the scars of loyalty to Christ.

You’ll meet men like:

• Polycarp, who stared down Roman authorities in his 80s and declared, “Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He never did me any injury. How then can I blaspheme my King and my Savior?”

• Athanasius, the Church Father who defied heretics and emperors alike, earning the nickname Athanasius contra mundum — “Athanasius against the world.”

• John Knox, the thunderous Scottish reformer who made Mary Queen of Scots tremble.

• David Livingstone, who trudged through plague-ridden Africa with a Bible in one hand and a pistol in the other.

• Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Just kidding. Probably not.

• The Machine Gun Preacher, Sam Childers, who fought literal warlords in Sudan while preaching the gospel and rescuing orphans.

This isn’t your grandma’s devotional.

These entries won’t read like sanitized hagiographies designed to bore you into holiness. They’ll be raw, intense, and unfiltered — the kind of stuff that reminds you Christianity was never meant to be safe. Smite Club is where we honor the sacred violence of righteousness, the divine ferocity of men willing to go down swinging for the King of kings.

And like Prairie Pilgrim Farms, this content is a perk for those who’ve put skin in the game. It’s not for tourists. It’s not for freeloaders. It’s for the ones who’ve said, “Yes, I believe in what this publication is doing, and I’m going to support it.”

Because here’s the truth: I’m always thinking about how to give you your money’s worth. Whether it’s practical preparedness tips, polemical breakdowns of modern evangelical drift, or now, inspirational dispatches from Christianity’s hall of holy grit, I want to make sure you walk away with something valuable.

Insight to Incite has always been about inspiring believers to keep the faith, use your head, and to gird up your loins like a man. Smite Club fits squarely in that mission — but with a testosterone injection. It’s for those who want to remember what real Christian boldness looks like. For those who need to be reminded that yes, gentleness is a fruit of the Spirit — but so is strength and courage.

So, subscribe. Stay subscribed. And get ready.

Because Smite Club isn’t about talk. It’s about action. It’s about loyalty. It’s about remembering that Jesus Christ is not just the Lamb — He’s the Lion.

And lions do not whimper.

Welcome to Smite Club.

Get a 20% discount to Insight to Incite here. And by the way, Founding Members get three FREE paid subscriptions (you know what I mean) to either gift to someone they love, or to put in the ‘Pay it Forward’ Fund to allow subscriptions to those having a tough financial time.