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Faith is a half-formed thing

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Lamorna Ash set out to understand how faith could prompt radical change.

She meets Christians of all kinds, including bipolar and an atheist Quaker .

Her search leads her from the silence of the Quaker meeting hall to the otherworldiness’ of the Orthodox Church .

She recounts well-known Bible stories Jacob and the Angel .

As a teenager, I was taught that sex outside marriage was abuse of a holy gift from God.

As a university student, I went to Church the next morning to ask God’s forgiveness for what I had done.

In Don’t Forget, questions of sex and sexuality dominate.

For many, sex and suffering are intimately connected.

Lamorna Ash's new book, Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever , is published by Bloomsbury Circus , London .

She argues that there is in every church and every believer there is “so much moveable strangeness” in Christianity .

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