Don't Forget We're Here Forever A New Generation's Search for Religion

<p><b><u>*A <i>TELEGRAPH</i>, <i>GQ</i>, <i>NEW YORKER</i> AND <i>PROSPECT</i> BOOK OF THE YEAR*</u></b><b><br>'A </b><i><b>Pilgrim's Progress</b> </i><b>for our time . . . A captivating narrative of discovery' </b><i>Telegraph</i><br><b>'A book of rare quality. Ash is a writer of exceptional grace and energy' </b>Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury<br><br><b>Why are young people in Britain today turning to faith in our age of uncertainty? </b><br><br>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.<br><br> In <i>Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever</i>, 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.<br><br><b>'The stakes are so real and so recognisable . . . The most honest and moving account of the wrestle of faith that I have read since Christian Wiman's </b><i>My Bright Abyss</i><b>' </b><i>Church Times</i><br><br><b>'One of those books I find myself being (excuse the pun) evangelical about, pressing it into friends’ hands like a Gideon’s Bible’</b> <i>Sunday Times</i><br><br><b>'Spellbinding. An incredible exploration of how young people are navigating the complex world we find ourselves in today' </b>Katy Hessel, author of <i>The Story of Art without Men</i></p>