Mitch Albom, popular inspirational writer, knows a good thing when he writes one. Have a Little Faith is remarkably similar to Tuesdays with Morrie ; both are inspiring true stories where Mitch visits and learns from a dying old man. Loaded with life lessons and quotable pithy statements from Morrie, or in this 2009 publication, Albom’s childhood Rabbi, both books cause the reader to contemplate the meaning of life.

In Fatih, Album is asked by his 82-year-old-Rabbi, “Will you do my eulogy?” This request begins an eight year journey, which the author describes thusly: “I thought I was being asked a favor. Actually, I was being given one…” Because Albom wanted to get to know the Rabbi as a man, as a husband and father, and as a spiritual leader, he made regular visits to Detroit, Albom’s childhood home, to interview him.

Establishing a sub-plot, the author describes another friendship he forms during these visits. A reformed drug dealer and convict, now an evangelistic pastor, who “preaches in a decaying church with a hole in the roof” ministers to the poor and homeless ” becomes Albom’s new friend. “As America struggles with hard times and people turn more to their beliefs, Albom and the two men of God explore issues that perplex man…”

At the end, Albom presents the eulogy he delivers for the Rbbi, which is truly moving. This is not only the story of the Rabbi, but of the author’s as he describes how he lost his faith and found it again.