Fall Lecture Series

Mitch Albom presents "Have a Little Faith"
Mitch Albom, author of Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven, talks about his new book. Have a Little Faith explores why faith is still needed and embraced in a modern world where we think we know all the answers.

As America struggles with hard times and people turn more to their beliefs, Albom explore issues that perplex modern man: how to endure when difficult things happen; what heaven is; intermarriage; forgiveness; doubting God; and the importance of faith in trying times. Have a Little Faith is a book about a life’s purpose; about losing belief and finding it again; about the divine spark inside us all. It is one man’s journey, but it is everyone’s story.

Mitch Albom is an internationally renowned and best-selling author, journalist, screenwriter, playwright, radio and television broadcaster and musician. His books have collectively sold over 28 million copies worldwide; have been published in forty-one territories and in forty-two languages around the world; and have been made into Emmy Award-winning and critically-acclaimed television movies.

The Fall Lecture will occur in Carter Hall on October 21, 2009 at 7 p.m., and is free for anyone to attend. After the lecture, Albom will sign copies of Have a Little Faith. Copies of the book are available for purchase in the USI Bookstore.

The 2009 Fall Lecture is co-sponsored by Student Development Programs, Housing and Residence Life, the Activities Programming Board, the Multicultural Center, Religious Life, and the USI Foundation.

About the Fall Lecture Series 
Every fall the Office of Student Development Programs, with assistance from the USI Foundation, sponsors the Fall Lecture Series.  The purpose of the Lecture Series is to bring a speaker to campus that will be of interest to students and cause them to challenge their beliefs.

 

Past speakers include the following:

    2008 - Alan Lightmat - The Diagnosis

    2007 - Kevin Roberts - The Food Dude 

    2006 - Jeannette Walls - The Glass Castle

    2005 - Ethan Zohn - Character: The Ultimate Survival Tool

    2004 - Brent Scarpo - Journey to a Hate Free Millennium

    2003 - Clifton Taulbert - Eight Habits of the Heart