How are their stories similar, different? Did you identify with one man more than the other? Compare and contrast the Reb and Pastor Henry.

What do you think about the Reb’s explanation? Can dialogue and debate about different beliefs, as the Reb argues, really enrich one’s own faith?

How can many faiths coexist? If different faiths have different beliefs, how can they all be correct? Does one faith have the right or obligation to convert the other? When Mitch asks this of the Reb, he explains that just as there are a variety of trees, multiple faiths all come from the same God (page 160).

In continuation of the above question, do you think anyone can ever “win” a religious argument? What do you think lies at the core of disagreements about religion?.

Talking about one’s religious faith is a personal endeavor do you find it easy or difficult to talk to others about religion, specifically your relationship to it? Are you comfortable discussing religion with someone with different beliefs?

In describing the journeys of faith taken by the Reb and Pastor Henry, Mitch Albom discusses his complicated relationship to his Jewish beliefs.

How would you react if someone you knew asked you to write their eulogy? How would you go about doing so?.

Have a Little Faith asks, “What if our beliefs were not what divided us, but what pulled us together?” How would you begin to answer this question? Which of the world’s ills could be healed, what wrongs could be made right, if religion was more of a unifying force?.

The below questions are designed to help guide your reading group’s discussion of this thought-provoking and uplifting book. As a result, this is a book filled with many fascinating themes, such as the power of resilience in the face of adversity, the true meaning of faith, and how belief can lift us in surprising ways. In Have a Little Faith, Albom explores the unifying power of religion as he plumbs the lives and callings of two “men of the cloth.” At the same time, it is the deeply personal story of Albom’s journey of faith, as he examines why he strayed from his Jewish roots and, through the inspiration of the Reb and Pastor Henry, how he comes to find his way home once more.

Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom