Posted on: 18th September 2025

Why are young people in Britain today turning to faith in our age of uncertainty?

Somerset Maugham Award-winning writer Lamorna Ash embarked on a journey across Britain to meet the new generation wrestling with Christianity in our age of disconnection and apathy. Hear about how her own deeply personal journey with religion inspired her investigation and what the people she met at Evangelical youth festivals and Quaker meetings, a silent Jesuit retreat to a monastic community in the Inner Hebrides, taught her about our universal need for nourishment of the soul. 

Presented in partnership with All Saints Ilkley as part of the Ilkley Literature Festival

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