Don't Forget We're Here Forever
A New Generation's Search for Religion
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Lamorna Ash
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Lamorna Ash
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Bloomsbury presents Don't Forget We're Here Forever, written and read by Lamorna Ash.
*A 2025 HIGHLIGHT FOR: Telegraph, Financial Times, New Statesman, Irish Times, Elle and GQ*
'Spellbinding. An incredible exploration of how young people are navigating the complex world we find ourselves in today' Katy Hessel, author of The Story of Art without Men
'A book of rare quality. Ash is a writer of exceptional grace and energy' Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury
Why are young people in Britain today turning to faith in our age of uncertainty?
Lamorna Ash was raised with about as much Christianity as most people in Britain these days: a basic knowledge of hymns and prayers received via a Church of England primary school education; occasional brushes with religious services. But once she started writing about her two friends’ unexpected conversions, she began encountering a recurring phenomenon: in an age of disconnection and apathy, a new generation was discovering religion for itself.
In Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever, Ash embarks on a journey across Britain to meet those wrestling with Christianity today. Through interviews and her own deeply personal journey with religion, and from Evangelical youth festivals to Quaker meetings, a silent Jesuit retreat along the Welsh coastline to a monastic community in the Inner Hebrides, she investigates what drives young people in the twenty-first century to embrace Christianity. Written with lyrical beauty and sensitivity, this is a reminder of our universal need for nourishment of the soul.
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I would recommend this book to anyone who believes they are searching for something beyond themselves that has so far eluded them.
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The writing is honest: I could empathise with the points made to the point of considering Christianity in a way I've probably never allowed myself to do before; and I could feel the writer's partiality towards many churches and interviews, just as I could feel her wish to remain impartial and to tell stories that were true to their characters.
Perhaps the biggest shortcoming to my eyes is explicit in the subtitle - and maybe not even a shortcoming of the book itself, but of its premise. 'A new generation's search for religion'. When I first looked at the book, I expected the word 'religion' to mean more than 'Christianity': at the very least, I expected the idea of faith per-se to be explored further, for there to be acknowledged that what we seek and find might be take different shapes outside the Christian Church. Because the truth isn't just that our generation is leaving branches of Christianity behind: when we refuse to reconnect with a faith that many of our parents questioned and abandoned, we don't stand still - we look further. We often look to the simpler practises of eastern religions, or the folk practises that were destroyed in the name of Christianity. Yes, we could probably have found home in a church, if not for its dogmas and bloody past. Yes, we can still find it there - perhaps. But we didn't really give up.
This book is a beautiful exploration of Christianity in England in its many faces: and it does prove the point that there are as many aspects to it as there are faith seekers who choose, for one reason or another, to put their trust in the figure of Christ.
A New Generation's Search for Christianity
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Thank you Lamorna, your words have made so much sense to me
Captivating
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Just really bloody good
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