In her memoir, When the Music Fades, Lucy Sixsmith revisits the popular Christian festival, Soul Survivor. Her writing raises important questions about power and safeguarding, says our reviewer

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The Naked Unashamed Life · Episode

Beyond the Happy Clappy · Episode

EACH summer, when my older children were teenagers, they went to Soul Survivor with the youth group from a neighbouring church. Sometimes, I acted as chauffeur. At its peak, the event hosted more than 32,000 young people under canvas, with its hea...

I remember bringing a schoolfriend of mine to our charismatic evangelical church.

Mike Starkey reviews a book on coming to terms with the Soul Survivor scandal

Content warning: this review touches on the Church of England safeguarding investigation into Soul Survivor and Mike Pilavachi, particularly in terms of coercive behaviour and evangelical youth subcul...

An important reflection on the past and future of Evangelicalism

On the podcast this week, Dr Lucy Sixsmith is interviewed about her new book, When the Music Fades: Power, surrender and the Soul Survivor generation. In the book, she reflects on growing up as part of the Soul Survivor generation, including atte...

The Second Sunday of Easter is breezy and blossomy and I’ve decided, for some reason, that I want to go to church. Why exactly I don’t know, but perhaps this

She talks to Madeleine Davies about her experience as ‘neither a survivor nor a safeguarding expert, but just someone who was in the crowd’