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James Osborn @ 2009-11-08

Have a Little Faith: A True Story

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This book tells a story that you can't see in the mainstream media: how faith improves society. The author Mitch Albom is a lapsed Jew who has moved away from his home congregation in New Jersey to a new home in Detroit. But somehow his hometown rabbi hears a speech he gives somewhere, and asks Mitch, "please write my eulogy." So he flies to meet the rabbi each week to get to know the old man, and discovering the rabbi's faith renews his own.
Meanwhile he finds out about a small Christian congregation in a big old church in Detroit. The pastor has his own story to tell, a history of drug addiction and crime, and his own path toward faith that points him to serving others who have even less than he. Mitch starts writing about the pastor in his newspaper column, so the church starts growing and improving.
This book makes me wonder why Hollywood and people of faith are at odds today. There are so many good stories from people of faith, yet Hollywood ignores them, or chooses screenplays that make fun of faith, or opposes faith, like the current film "The Invention of Lying." But Mitch Albom's book makes it clear that faith has a place in society, a good place.