Then I heard about this one homeless shelter inside of a church where people literally slept on the floor of this church except that there was a giant hole in its roof, 20 some-odd feet long and wide, and snow and rain literally would come in and land on the pews.Īnd so I went to go see this place to see if it needed some funding and I asked to meet the pastor, and out came this very large man, six foot three, African-American, about 450 pounds. Actually, several years into visiting with the rabbi I got involved with the homeless here in Detroit.
ALBOM: Henry Covington is the second sort of key character in "Have a Little Faith," and I came upon him much later in my life. SIMON: And tell us a pastor, a man in your hometown of Detroit now, Pastor. And that began what I thought would be, you know, maybe a few weeks, a couple of months, but it went on for eight years. I mean, I've known you really all my life, but always from the seats.
I didn't know what to say, and so I basically got back to him a day or so later and said, well, if you really want me to do this, I need to get to know you as a human being. He said, I'd like you to do the eulogy at my funeral. I had given a little talk and out in the hallway afterwards he pulled me aside. SIMON: So he came to one of your appearances once and he made a request of you that kind of started this whole process. He would say (singing:) The old grey Rabbi ain't what he used to be, ain't - (speaking:) like that, and you'd have to sit through the whole stanza. And I don't mean songs but he loved to sing sentences, so that if you ask how he was doing in his later years, he would never say fine or okay. He was charismatic, funny, whimsical, loved to sing. That synagogue that he helped found in 1948 was the only one that he ever served, for 60 some-odd years. I want you to get this to set up each of these men for us. SIMON: First, let's begin with your old boyhood rabbi. MITCH ALBOM (Author): Oh, it's my pleasure, thanks. Mitch Albom joins from the studios of WDET in Detroit. Mitch Albom, the sports columnist who of course is the author of huge international bestsellers, including "Tuesdays with Morrie," and "The Five People You Meet In Heaven," has written a new book, "Have a Little Faith: A True Story." Albom take a fresh look at faith, in God and goodness, and in giving meaning to the life.
Or were they? Those two clergymen made Mr. But then he got to know two men, from almost wildly different backgrounds and different faiths. Mitch Albom doesn't think of himself as religious.
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