Lamorna Ash

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Award-winning writer and journalist Lamorna Ash explores why young people in Britain are turning to faith in an age of uncertainty.

Ash says she grew up with a typical understanding of Christianity gained through attending a Church of England primary school and attending the occasional religious service. However, when she began writing about her two friends’ unexpected conversion, she says she realised that a new generation was discovering religion for itself. She set off on a journey across Britain to Evangelical youth festivals, Quaker meetings, a silent Jesuit retreat along the Welsh coastline and a monastic community in the Inner Hebrides to investigate what drives young people to embrace religion in the 21st century.

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Ash’s first book, Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town, won a Somerset Maugham award.

This event is part of the festival’s programme on Christian tradition.