Have a little faith : a true story

Summary: In Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom offers a beautifully written story of a remarkable eight-year journey between two worlds, two men, two faiths, two communities that will inspire readers everywhere. Have a Little Faith begins with an unusual requestl an eighty-two-year old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy. Feeling unworthy, Albom insists on understanding the man better, which thrown him back into a world of faith he'd left years ago. Meanwhile, closer to his current home, Albom becomes involved with a Detroit paster, a reformed drug dealer and convict who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in the roof. Moving between their worlds, Christian and Jewish, African-American and white, impoverished and well-to-do, Albom observes how these very different men employ faith similarly in fighting for survival: the older, suburdan rabbi embracing it as death approaches; the younger, inner-city paster relying on it to keep himself and his church afloat. As America struggles with hard times and people turn more to their beliefs, Albom and the two men of God explore issues that perplex modern man: how to endure when difficult things happehn; what heaven is; intermarriages; forgiveness; doubting God; and the importance of faith in trying times. Although the texts, prayers and histories are different, Albom begins to recognize a striking unity between the two world and indeed, between beliefs everywhere. In the end, as the rabbi nears death and a hars winter threatens the pastor's wobbly church, Albom sadly fulfills the rabbi's last requestand writes the eulogy. And he finally understands what both men had been teaching all along: the profound comfort of believing in something bigger than yourself.