Event 54
Lamorna Ash
Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever: A New Generation’s Search For Religion
– St Mary’s Church
Writer Lamorna Ash explores why younger people in search of nourishment for the soul are turning to religion. 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 and occasional brushes with religious services.
But when 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 her book Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever, Ash explores why younger people are turning to religion, and meets those wrestling with Christianity today.
Ash’s first book Dark, Salt, Clear won a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize.
