Contact: Curt Harding, Thomas Nelson, 615-902-2246, charding@thomasnelson.com
NASHVILLE, Aug. 15 /Christian Newswire/ -- We've all heard the charges: Secular colleges and universities negate the need for a Creator by teaching that evolution accounts for the universe, expose students to anti-Christian worldviews, and then teach tolerance as the highest virtue.
Could these charges possibly be true?
They were for at least one Baby Boomer who attended a state university in the 1970s -- a 1975 summa cum laude journalism graduate named Kitty Foth-Regner, author of the recently released Heaven Without Her: A Desperate Daughter's Search for the Heart of Her Mother's Faith (Thomas Nelson, 2008, www.HeavenWithoutHer.com).
Like many of her contemporaries who left Christian homes to attend secular schools in the 1960s and 1970s, Foth-Regner soon came to believe that even if truth exists, no one can possibly know it – and then spent the next quarter century wavering between agnosticism and atheism.
But then her beloved Christian mother developed a fatal illness, forcing the freelance high-tech copywriter into an all-consuming, 15-month quest for the truth about our eternal destinies. In the end, she had to acknowledge that what she'd learned in college was not true: that indeed it is possible to know God exists, heaven is real, and the route there is clearly delineated in the Bible.
Foth-Regner recounts her journey in Heaven Without Her, which describes in often witty and moving detail how topics as earth-bound as genetic mutation and irreducible complexity can lead to heaven-bound joy. "This is an ideal book to give to a person who may have questions about the Christian faith," said prominent Christian blogger Tim Challies in a recent review on Discerningreader.com. "I consider it an important apologetic work."
"Kitty shared lots of facts and evidence and many of the same questions she presented are the same things my daughter is questioning," wrote one Christianbook.com reviewer, who said she had just sent the book to her 21-year-old daughter, along with a loving note.
A Christian counselor reviewing Heaven Without Her on Barnesandnoble.com wrote, "As a mother with an agnostic feminist scientist daughter, I could totally relate. This book gave me hope."
An Amazon.com reviewer recommended Heaven Without Her not only to "those who may consider themselves far too intelligent and 'sophisticated'" for their parents' faith, but also to her own generation. "Read it yourself, as I did," she wrote, "to understand the kinds of questions that have, for so long, justified disbelief in those whose goal that is. Then give a copy to your own dear young unbeliever, and ask that she read it too ... I haven't found a better way to open this potentially life-changing conversation – not confrontationally, but in the honest hope of mutual learning."
About the Author
Kitty Foth-Regner is a freelance copywriter, author of Heaven Without Her (Thomas Nelson, 2008) and The Cure (Main Street, 1987), and co-author with Amy Ammen of Hip Ideas for Hyper Dogs (Wiley, 2007). A summa cum laude graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, she has written extensively on subjects ranging from diagnostic imaging to industrial automation. She lives in Waukesha, Wisconsin, with her husband and assorted pets.
To schedule an interview with Kitty Foth-Regner or to receive a review copy, contact Curt Harding at 615-902-2246 or email charding@thomasnelson.com.
