Lamorna Ash

In her wildly successful new book, ‘Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever’ (Bloomsbury, 2025), Lamorna Ash asks why many young people facing an age of uncertainty are turning to faith. Raised with only a smattering of knowledge of Christianity, Ash started her journey after writing two friends’ unexpected conversions. From here, she began encountering a recurring phenomenon: in an age of disconnection and apathy, a new generation was discovering, wrestling with, and reshaping religion for itself. Through interviews and her own deeply personal journey with religion, experiencing Evangelical youth festivals to Quaker meetings, a silent Jesuit retreat along the Welsh coastline to a monastic community in the Inner Hebrides, Ash investigates what drives young people in the twenty-first century to embrace Christianity.

Lamorna Ash is a writer and freelance journalist based in London. Her first book, ‘Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town’ (Bloomsbury, 2020), was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, won a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize. ‘Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever’ (Bloomsbury, 2025) is her second book.

Dr Selina Stone is Lecturer in Theology and Ethics and co-director of the Centre for Theology and Public Issues at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh. She is the author several books, which address themes within Christian spirituality and theology, including issues of power and abuse, and social justice. Her latest book is ‘A Heavy Yoke: Theology, Power and Abuse in the Church’ (SCM Press, 2025).