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Don't Forget We're Here Forever
Don't Forget We're Here Forever
Lamorna Ash ('a new star of non-fiction' William Dalrymple) explores why young people today are turning to faith in an age of uncertainty.
When several of her friends turned to faith in their twenties, Lamorna Ash sensed the beginnings of a phenomenon. In our fractured age, a new generation was rediscovering Christianity for itself.
In this urgent and lyrical adventure, Ash embarks on a journey across Britain to meet the young people wrestling with faith today. Taking us from ancient abbeys to modern meeting houses, silent retreats to garrulous Bible classes, Don' t Forget We're Here Forever explores our need for community and nourishment of the soul.
Lamorna Ash
Lamorna Ash is a writer and freelance journalist based in London.
Her first book, 'Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town', was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, won a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize.
In May 2025, her latest book, 'Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever: A New Generation’s Search for Religion', will be published, exploring why young people in Britain today are turning towards faith in an age of uncertainty.
Elizabeth Oldfield
Elizabeth Oldfield is an author and podcaster. She has worked as a journalist and the BBC and was director of Theos, a religious thinktank.
The Radical Centre
In a UK where 84% of the public say the country feels divided, fresh calls for national unity are echoing across civic platforms and public squares around the country. Large-scale rallies, counter-mobilisations, and new coalitions are all seeking to define what Britain should stand for in a moment of heightened tension around themes of identity, land and belonging.
But what does togetherness really mean in a time of protest, mistrust and culture war — and how do we move beyond competing slogans toward relationships strong enough to hold deep difference?
Join leading UK voices in depolarisation and peacemaking Jo Berry, Ali Amla, Sean Ryan, Clare Martin and moderator Elizabeth Oldfield as they explore how we can build a form of unity that does not require uniformity — and how we might step away from outrage, censorship and echo chambers to cultivate the skills needed to remain in relationship across profound disagreement.
Conversation with Dr Curt Thompson (online)
I’m hosting an online conversation (for paid substack subscribers) on 7th May at 6pm UK time/1pm ET with Dr Curt Thompson, psychiatrist and expert in interpersonal neurobiology. Regular readers will know I am fascinated by how we live in more relational, intentional, spiritually alive ways. I find much in neuroscience illuminating for this and Curt is one of my go-to experts on the intersection of spirituality and psychology. If you’re a paid subscriber you’ll find joining instructions in a post and I’ll send a reminder nearer the time. If you’re not a paid subscriber and you’d like to join us and ask your questions (or have access to the video and transcript afterwards), please consider upgrading.
University of Leicester Lecture
This year we welcome Elizabeth Oldfield, a writer, speaker, and podcast host who works at the intersection of faith, culture and public life. She previously spent a decade as Director of Theos, the UK’s leading religion and society think tank, and now hosts The Sacred, a podcast exploring the deepest values of public figures and how those values shape our common life.
When the times are turbulent, we need wisdom. We look back to see how humans have survived and even sometimes thrived through more turbulent times than ours. This may be partly driving what looks like an increased willingness, especially amongst young people, to look for wisdom in a potentially unlikely place: religion. In this lecture, Elizbeth Oldfield unpacks why, somewhat to her surprise, there may be much wisdom for these times to be found in the ancient practices of Christianity. This event will explore how, whether you feel drawn to its metaphysical claims or not, this tradition might hold tools and spiritual technologies to help us navigate whatever is coming next.