Robert Flynn has gathered twenty-three stories that have hope, 
faith, and love as their common denominator. They are funny, 
political, and more than a bit prophetic as well as being superbly 
crafted.

    Included in the collection are "The Rest of the Story," wherein 
the author retells select Biblical stories and parables supplying 
heretofore expurgated details with an exquisitely agonizing truth; 
"Ten Mistakes God Made," which treats with candor religious 
politics, elitism, and the unexplained nature of what makes us 
believe; "The Trouble with Eve" and "Redemption," which are at 
heart stories of how one grapples with, avoids, questions, and 
finally resigns to—love; and "Chicken Soup for the Damned," a fable 
cum corporate biography retelling of the Savior's story. 

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ROBERT FLYNN, a native of Chillicothe, Texas, is the author of 
eight novels, among them North To Yesterday (winner of awards from 
the Texas Institute of Letters and the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, 
and named one of the Best Books of the Year by the New York 
Times) and Wanderer Springs (winner of a Spur Award from Western 
Writers of America). He is also the author of Growing Up a Sullen 
Baptist and Other Lies from the University of North Texas Press. He
lives in Shavano Park with his wife, Jean. REV. KYLE CHILDRESS 
has served as the pastor of the Austin Heights Baptist Church in 
Nacogdoches, Texas, since 1989.



What people are saying about this book

"Flynn's prose cuts like St. Michael's sword slicing through the 
smug heart of a believer too comfortable in his faith. He is to 
southern Baptists what Flannery O'Conner is to southern Catholics. 
He is raw, woolly, and wild-eyed, and very necessary."—Jill A. 
Essbaum, Concordia University, and author, Heaven