James Marriott

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547 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 31 Aug

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Radical · Gen Z and God: Is the Church Answering Young People's Prayers? (Lamorna Ash) · 30 Jul 2026 podcast

She began her journey as a curious and rather sceptical observer.

But as she went along, things got increasingly personal, and she started to see the appeal of Christianity for herself.

Lamorna documented her experiences in her book, Don't Forget We're Here Forever, which asks what Christianity might offer that secular society cannot.

I want to ask her what answers younger generations are finding in Christianity for the problems in their lives.

Are they searching for meaning?

Or are they looking for ritual, community and certainty in a disorienting digital culture that often leaves us lonely, anxious and unsure of what to believe?

And is this the beginning of a genuine religious revival or just a good old-fashioned rebellion against the modern world?

So I hope you enjoy my conversation with Lamorna Ash.

Lamorna, thanks so much for joining us on Radical.

I wanted to start by asking you, what first got you interested in researching young people and Christianity?

It is such a fascinating story.

I'm interested to know what experience did you have of Christianity before you started talking to people about it?

Like how religious was your upbringing?

So I guess looking back, it's not entirely surprising that you wrote a book about Christianity, or not as surprising as it maybe initially seemed.

When you were going out and visiting lots of religious communities and people on different paths of conversion, what were the experiences you found that most overturned your assumptions about what you were going to find when you started looking for Christianity in the modern world?

I find that nun phenomenon... I wrote an article about this a while ago and I encountered nun TikTok.

And I was like, there are just nuns making TikToks, which to me seemed to somewhat contradict my idea of what being a nun was about.

But I guess... They've got to be in the modern era, Elizabeth.

They're getting the message out there.

All that, I think, brings me back to a really interesting theme of this idea that young people are finding Christianity something now quite countercultural.

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