Josh and Jack are in their mid-20s, when they graduated from university they wanted to be comedians, and now they plan to be Church of England priests. Their friend, Lamorna Ash, wants to know why. This is an interesting look at how people find God — at a time when the number of young Christians is declining.
How can a person travel from one ethical standpoint to another like that? How can you have no belief, and after only a few years see the Christian faith as the gamut by which you live your life? Sometimes as we talked, I wanted to ask if this was their final conviction, if there might not be another shift to a new worldview in five, 10 years’ time.
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