AEWCH 303: LAMORNA ASH on REVIVING CHRISTIANITY IN A TIME OF BROKEN REVIVAL
Against Everyone with Conner Habib
Against Everyone With Conner Habib
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🗓️ 7 October 2025
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
On the first of two back to back episodes on christianity in the world today, I talk with writer LAMORNA ASH whose latest book, Don't Forget We're Here Forever: A New Generation's Search for Religion chronicles her conversations with christian converts and the newly faithful in the still-secular UK.
In the process of writing the book, Lamorna has her own reevaluations of christianity and her own beliefs as a queer person. Of these conversations, Lamorna writes, “They taught me how to believe the belief of others.” It’s a beautiful sentiment and means that Lamorna is untangling the many ways to believe and understand.
But it raises questions, too.
How to believe others’s beliefs if they are threatening? If they are aimed against you? And what about when those beliefs are aligned with powerful political forces… can they be said to even be beliefs then, and not just coerced behavior?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Against Everyone with Connor Habib. |
| 0:03.8 | Friends, I'm going to start this two-part series of episodes on Christianity in the |
| 0:09.6 | world today with a poem by one of my favorite poets whose name is Christian. |
| 0:14.3 | So this is All My Friends Are Finding New Beliefs by Christian Wyman. |
| 0:20.0 | All my friends are finding new beliefs. |
| 0:22.9 | This one converts to Catholicism, and this one to trees. |
| 0:27.4 | In a highly literary and hitherto religiously indifferent Jew, |
| 0:31.3 | God whamps on like a genetic generator. |
| 0:34.7 | Paleo, keto, zone, South Beach, Bourbon. Exercise regimen so extreme, she merges with |
| 0:42.3 | machine. One man marries a woman 20 years younger and twice in one branch uses the word verdant. |
| 0:50.3 | Another's brick-fisted belligerents, gentles into dementia, and one, after a decade of finical faints and teases, like a sandpiper at the edge of the sea, decides to die. |
| 1:04.4 | Priesthoods and beasthoods, sombers and glees, high-styled renunciations and avocations of dirt, sobrieties, satiities, pilgrimages, |
| 1:15.9 | to the very bowels of being. |
| 1:18.8 | All my friends are finding new beliefs, and I am finding it harder and harder to keep track |
| 1:24.2 | of the new gods and the new loves, and the old gods and the old loves, |
| 1:28.8 | and the days have daggers, and the mirrors, motives, |
| 1:32.6 | and the planets turning faster and faster in the blackness, |
| 1:35.8 | and my nights and my doubts, and my friends, my beautiful, credible friends. |
| 1:42.8 | Well, that is a poem with actually a light touch for Christian Wyman, |
| 1:48.3 | whose memoir is entitled My Bright Abyss. Because beliefs are everywhere. They turn funny. |
| 1:57.3 | They turn light. They become tragic and they become challenging. And there's a revival |
| 2:03.8 | happening everywhere for beliefs right now, all sorts of beliefs. The way people usually describe this |
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