In his hometown of Detroit, he forged a link with Pastor Henry Covington, an African-American Protestant minister at the I Am My Brother's Keeper Church. Albom agreed, contingent on an agreement that he could begin a series of interviews and conversations, in order to get to know Lewis as a man, not just as a rabbi.Īlbom writes that his conversations with Lewis-whom he refers to as the Reb, an affectionate term drawn from the Yiddish word for rabbi-eventually led to an increased interest on Albom's part in the power and meaning of faith in a larger sense. Lewis, his childhood rabbi, to write and deliver the eulogy when the time came for the rabbi's funeral. Home Have a Little Faith Wikipedia: SynopsisĪlbom (Mitchel David "Mitch" Albom) writes in the introduction to this book that the idea for it began with the request by Albert L.
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