Self Improvement Through Faith, Family, and Fractured Lives: Frank Houston’s Roll Back the Stone
Faith-based writing often smooths over the jagged edges of reality, presenting life as more comfortable than it actually is. However, Frank Houston does not do this in Roll Back the Stone. He presses into the complexity, asking questions that do not resolve neatly. He portrays family not as a sanctuary, but as the environment where […]
Roll Back the Stone: How Frank Houston’s New Book Confronts the Wounds We Keep Buried
There is a particular kind of wound that a person learns to work around rather than through. It does not disappear; it becomes part of how one moves through life, like a limp that has become unnoticed over time. Frank Houston notices. In Roll Back the Stone, his 2026 collection of spiritually grounded stories and […]
When God Rolls Back Your Stone: The Stories in Frank Houston’s Book That Will Stay With You
There is a particular kind of book that does not announce itself with polished marketing language or a perfectly constructed premise. It arrives raw, honest, and soaked in lived experience. Frank Houston’s Roll Back the Stone is that kind of book. Written by a fourth-generation Washington, D.C. native, public servant of over thirty years, and […]
