In ‘I'm spiritual but not religious’, Lillian Daniel shows that the modern focus on the private "spiritual life" makes people inwardly self-focused, vague in their expression of faith and unwilling to respond to suffering and need and. It is, she insists, the centuries of careful religious thought, debate, and most importantly, community, that enables us to search for, find and act with God in the midst of fallible human beings. Now this is being denied to Christians and we are the worse for it.

Lillian Daniel’s opens with the comment: “While I think God does want us to feel gratitude, I do not think God particularly wants us to feel lucky. I think God wants us to witness pain and suffering and, rather than feeling lucky, God wants us to get angry and want to do something about it.”

Taking apart the phrase "I'm spiritual, but not religious” Lillian Daniels shows how this blanket excuse has damaged faith traditions such that "religious” people - especially if they are open-minded and progressive themselves - don't know how to respond.

With real life stories biblical examples, Lillian shines an honest and candid light on a faith that can, all at once, be strange, wonderful and well worth trying. Yet, Lillian finds, people create their own version of God because they can’t face the God who created them.

Lillian Daniel answers the dilemma by showing you people who are searching for God in the midst of everyday life, unashamed to be "religious" in the full and wonderful sense of the word. When "Spiritual but Not Religious" is Not Enough is the book for people who want to find God in nature and in other weird places: prison, airports, yoga classes, committee meetings, and even their local church.