God's Radar

by Fran Arrick

Book Overview

A teen-age girl in a small southern town is torn between her parents' religious rebirth and her boyfriend's free spirit. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0027057100
• ISBN13: 9780027057102
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Bradbury Press
• Length: 223 Pages

Customer Reviews

Orwellian

Roxie and her family move to mediam-sized city in a state such as Virginia. There, Roxie makes friends with another teenage girl who is involved with a huge local church and ministry. Roxie's whole family, except for an older sister who is off at college, gets involved with the church.As the reader, we know that the church is not good. But the author is excellent and realistic, about how a quick ready response to a question or comment shuts down the rational thing part of the mind of one not fully self-assured. I've had that kind of encounter in virtually every debate I've gotten into.The summer, for example, the friend persuades Roxie to be a day counsillor at a camp for young children. One of the kids takes a liking to her, and tells about horrifying movies they show the kids at bedtime. Roxie tells her friend, who says that the movies involve the prospects for those who are not born again. The friend reassures Roxie that the children know they won't face the prospects, because they are born again.During the year, Roxie is forced to transfer from the public high school to the church high school. Her mother starts working with a hospital, to minister to injured veterans. Roxie goes along one day, and when one interaction with an injured patient is related, it's obvious that they aren't helping the patient so much as exploiting his vulnerability.I could very well have been the target audience of the book. My mind froze up exactly the way the writing intended.This book is most likely based on Jerry Falwell's ministry. I do not know how much the church in the story actually resembled Falwell's church.