God's Scorekeeper and Other Stories

“If I ever spent time with the pastors in Frank Honeycutt’s great collection of stories, God’s Scorekeeper, then I probably wouldn’t be such a heathen. Honeycutt has created a passel of big-hearted, curious, oftentimes befuddled, oftentimes mischievous protagonists needed now more than ever. Reading his stories is like attending a spectacular, comfortable class reunion—and those are rare events. These stories should be read on Sunday mornings, plus Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday . . .”


—George Singleton, Staff Picks





“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.”


—Nancy L. Tuten, Professor of English, Columbia College





“Drawing on more than three decades of pastoral work, Frank looks deep into the conflicts of the human soul that work themselves out in the mistrustful and backbiting world we humans create daily. We sense the slipups of the tongue that wound, the boorish choices that hurt family and stranger, and the premeditated wishes that threaten the feigned harmony among neighbors and community leaders. Yet grace emerges, if but for a second, in a smile, in a prayer, even in the boundaries established in difficult conversations. Frank's stories come alive and we await the end of each narrative to play with the prescient hint of life itself. God's Scorekeeper is an act of grace, a reaffirmation of faith, and a metaphor of hope.”


—Douglass Sullivan-Gonzalez, Dean of the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College, University of Mississippi