All That's Holy is a new twist on an age-old search -- a spiritual road trip that chronicles both a personal
pursuit of religious identity and meaning, and an outward-looking exploration of the varieties of American religious
experience. From big cities to small towns, in prisons, monasteries, synagogues, and street corners, Tom both seeks
out and stumbles upon people whose faith is more than it seems on the surface. Buddhists and Baptists, Muslims
and Mormons, Pagans and Pentecostals -- Tom's conversations about faith and doubt weave together a poignant, memorable
tapestry of American spirituality.
With the country as his classroom, Tom sketches a lively, funny, and evocative portrait of how people live -- whether
they see themselves as spiritual or religious, why they've left (or remained in) the religious communities of their
upbringing, and how they negotiate the tensions of living in an American culture at once highly secular and deeply
religious. By the end of the road trip. Tom learns there's no place like home: a journey conceived to learn about
the spiritual lives of others leads him to a newfound understanding of his own.