Reason is, indeed, a good partner with faith though reason might simply be its own kind of faith. It is non-reasonable faith by which people imagine and attempt the impossible, or  build community across impossible differences. Someone says the critically important role of reason is where people check, "Does this make sense?" Reason, correctly applied, is what prevents atrocities, for example, though reason incorrectly applied leads quite easily to atrocities, just as faith, incorrectly applied, does the same thing. Fascism is highly reasonable.

Reason might find a way to put a person on the moon, for example, but the whole idea of going to the moon is not reasonable. It comes from something that one is more inclined to conceptualize through faith, even if that faith is nationalism. We would not have nation states, by the way, without imagining transcendent things. We would be tribes.

But "reason rather than faith?" Danger flags should go up.