Snippets: Heaven Without Her

Kitty Foth-Regner's book Heaven Without Her is an interesting mix of personal memoir and apologetics book.  At the heart of the book is Foth-Regner's spiritual journey from agnosticism to Christianity, set against the backdrop of her mother's immanent death.  She moves from rejecting the Christian tradition of her parents, to setting out on a spiritual quest for truth.  Interwoven throughout the story is the intellectual path that she travels; she often describes the impact of various books on her quest for truth.  In one such discussion, she quotes from the writings of A.S.A Jones

"Describing the Bible as a spiritual stereogram, Jones wrote, 'You need two aspects of the intellect to see the reality of God in its pages; you need to utilize both the logical and spiritual (or poetic) component of your thinking to see Him.  If you use only one in the absence of the other, you will lose the effect.  It's like covering one eye' 
Jones pointed out that depth is key to seeing the truth in the Bible just as it is in stereograms.  'I think the reason a lot of people aren't seeing its truth today', she said, 'is that we have become a nation of shallow thinkers'.' (epub edition, 258)

Heaven Without Her: A Desperate Daughter's Search for the Heart of Her Mother's Faith