Tzvee's Talmudic Blog (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
... describes in this book how two heroic characters, Rabbi Al Lewis in South Jersey and Reverend Henry Covington in Detroit, sustained and inspired their respective faith communities. You will find a community organizer in every liturgical culture. He may come from the ranks of the laity or from the clergy. That person will rarely get formal recognition. In the synagogue, a single Sabbath...
Tzvee's Talmudic Blog (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... man Albom did all he could to avoid the rabbi. Now he seeks out the man's insights into life. Henry Covington is an African-American Detroit pastor, a reformed drug dealer and convict who preaches in a decaying church with a hole in its roof and the heat turned off. Albom seems concerned yet determined to find ways to understand and to help him. The book description says, "Albom...
92Y Blog (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
We recently invited our Twitter followers to submit questions for writer and broadcaster Mitch Albom in advance of his appearance Nov 4 . Albom will discuss his new book, Have a Little Faith: A True Story , and the characters contained within, Albert Lewis, rabbi of Albom’s childhood synagogue in Cherry Hill, N.J. and Rev. Henry Covington of Detroit. Mercury News.com writes: Covington...
