Without referencing doctrine, this unique book conceptualizes essential elements of religion and spirituality that include love, faith, vocation, identity transformation, and the distinction between psychological and spiritual life. Employing evocative and often literary language to evoke direct experience in readers, Original Faith delineates clear phenomenological concepts that stay close to experience itself without straying onto long metaphysical or theological limbs that can fail to support critical scrutiny.

The book's goals are to provide grounds for unity among religious and secular progressives by offering material that can personally enrich the faith of believers while establishing a paradigm for faith and spiritual life that non-believers will find compelling. This is spiritual development for highly critical thinkers.