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Don't Forget We're Here Forever

A New Generation's Search for Religion

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Don't Forget We're Here Forever

By: 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.

©2025 Lamorna Ash (P)2025 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Anthropology Christian Living Christianity

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Exquisitely observed and deeply personal. The author has the capacity to enter in to the many stories of faith across the diverse denominations in the UK. Lamorna beautifully articulates the best and worst of our Christian traditions allowing herself to experience them first hand.

Thank you Lamorna, your words have made so much sense to me

Captivating

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As someone who grew up in Christianity, I’ve grown tired of it, embarrassed of the label but never able to shake it off. My politics and my life don’t necessarily match up to the mould I was brought up in and that means I’ve struggled to exist in/with it in my adult life. But this book allows me to experience my religion from a perspective I never got to have. Through the lens of someone coming to it from a fresh and open perspective where the stakes never mattered - opinions formed out of curiosity, deep study and empathy. Couldn’t be more grateful for this book. Lamorna’s a legend and has a really nice voice x

Just really bloody good

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A moving account of a personal struggle with Christianity, with no certainty and no dogma.

An honest account of a personal quest

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A wonderful exploration of modern day Christianity and the authors search for the Divine in the midst of it.

Beautiful heartfelt reflections

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A very interesting and well considerate book by a voice I could easily imagine befriending. And yes, this would be relevant because I, too, am part of this 'new generation' seeking for something else.

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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I found this book a futile and depressing listen. There is no food for the soul here, just a blind, lost woman sadly fumbling around in the dark. I've been there myself, so I certainly don't criticise her, but I could only read the first few and last chapters before giving up. After all her research, all her questions, all her interviews, etc. at the end of it all she's still very much in the dark.
The author, reading though the Bible, doesn't want to believe it but only imposes upon it her own distorted ideas and beliefs. Fundamentally, her interpretation of who Jesus Christ is is profoundly wide of the mark.
Rather than come to Christianity with an open heart, she wants her own version of it, her own God. In the conclusion, instead of being willing to accept the authority of the Bible, as being God's word, she outlines what she thinks the Bible should be.
In all her time 'searching' she has chosen everything that fits in with her own worldview and her needs - e.g. the need for order and ritual in the midst of a chaotic world - and rejected everything that is vital: repentance, salvation, genuine transformation.
I would recommend that if you are genuinely searching for truth, life, peace, you stick with the Bible, and prayerfully ask God to show you what you need to hear, and give you the humility to accept it. All the answers you need are there.
And I hope, Lamorna, that you find the Answer too.

futile

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