Lent Book: Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever
March 12 @ 11:00 am
An event every week that begins at 11:00 am on Thursday, repeating until 19th March 2026
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Over three weeks, we’ll be discussing Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever: A New Generation’s Search for Religion (Bloomsbury 2025), in which freelance journalist Lamorna Ash explores why young people in Britain today are turning to faith. Meeting for an hour or so in the Cross Keys Pub, on Thursdays at 11 am. Do let Charles know you’re coming!
Week 1 (Thursday 5th March): Part 1 (Prologue, Introduction and chapters 1 to 5; page vii – p.118)
Week 2 (Thursday 12th March): Part 2 (chapters 6 to 9; pages 121-207)
Week 3 (Thursday 19th March): Part 3 (chapters 10 to 14, Conclusion and Epilogue; pages 211-296)
The book is only available in hardback, and you can order it from your local bookshop (ISBN 978-1-5266-6314-6), or buy it new for £17 from at Amazon.
From the back of the book:
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 is driving Gen Z today to embrace Christianity. Written with lyrical beauty and sensitivity, this is a reminder of our universal need for nourishment of the soul.
From the reviews:
A book of rare quality. Ash is a writer of exceptional grace and energy (Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury)
In this elegantly written work of non-fiction, she travels around Britain to see how our young people turned back to religion, exploring everything from Quaker meetings to monastic communities on the Hebridean Isles. We read a lot of waffle about “the youth today”, and what they do (or don’t) believe: Ash paints a fascinating, and more realistic, picture (Lucy Thynne, Telegraph, The Best Books of 2025)
Lamorna Ash wonders why – and how – so many young people are converting to Christianity in Britain today. It’s no spoiler to say that Ash’s search for answers leads to some self-questioning too, but, crucially, she remains clear-eyed about her subject throughout. This is religion in the 21st century — (Peter Hoskin, Prospect, Books of the Year)
Lyrical, reflective . . . A rare and arresting book (Pippa Bailey, New Statesman)
