![]() ![]() The school’s bible study group is dominated by fundamentalists: the boys play ‘proof text volleyball’. All his prayers seem to have been answered in the affirmative except two: that his mother wouldn’t die (which she did when he was aged twelve) and that he wouldn’t turn out gay. ![]() The ‘God box’ of the title is a receptacle into which he puts written prayers. He feels that if he befriends him, as the new boy wants, he will be seen as gay by association. He feels very threatened when an out gay Mexican, Manuel, joins his class. He is hiding before the ‘no sex before marriage’ rule to avoid any physical contact with her apart from a dutiful peck in the cheek. ![]() A relative pointedly asks him is he really loves her because, if not, he will hurt her. He has a girlfriend but this is really a best friend thing with no passion though it serves as a cover for his real feelings which, he is convinced, is ‘a passing phase’. ![]() Paul, who is really Pablo, is from Mexico but he desperately wants to fit in with the ‘jocks’ in his school. If you know a teenage boy who is scared to accept that he is gay and who also goes to an evangelical/charismatic/fundamentalist church, then this book would be a great help to him in sorting out what the Bible actually says and about how God is not some sadistic monster who is going to send him to Hell. ![]()
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