Nancy Lewis Tuten

God's Scorekeeper and Other Stories

Fiction

“With sardonic wit, irreverent humor, and pitch-perfect turns of phrase, Frank Honeycutt explores the interior lives not only of his misfit pastor protagonists but also of anyone trying to negotiate a faithful life. He reminds us that demons of one kind or another haunt everyone: the overzealous and the cynic, the self-righteous and the guilt-ridden, the unstable and the smugly intellectual—all deeply flawed, all in need of grace.”

Miracles for Skeptics

“In his latest book, Frank Honeycutt revisits some of the most challenging events in the New Testament. Readers hoping to make peace with these hard-to-swallow stories, though, will find no easy answers, no logical explanations or pat interpretations tied neatly with a bow. Instead, knowing that the most powerful tales resist one-and-done interpretations while rewarding each new encounter with fresh insights, Honeycutt invites us to examine these paranormal occurrences through the lens of ‘all the skepticism with which [we’ve] been blessed.’ His rigorous hiking and cross-country cycling journeys provide an apt metaphor for the sojourn into Biblical events that defy logic and reason. Like the protagonist of his short story ‘Virginal Laptop,’ which serves as the penultimate chapter, Honeycutt discovers new meaning in these odd tales—revelations that, in the author’s words, beckon us in ‘unpredictable, risky, and life-shaping’-new directions.”