In response to recent safeguarding investigations into Soul Survivor, a well-respected Anglican youth ministry, When the Music Fades takes a wider look at the culture and practices of charismatic evangelical Christianity in the nineties/noughties. What happens if you tell a bunch of teenagers they’re supposed to be saving the world? What is the impact when they grow up, and grapple with the ordinary difficulty of ordinary adulthood? When does worship become coercion, or idealism become dangerous?

When the Music Fades is available from Canterbury Press (https://canterburypress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/9781786226150/when-the-music-fades) and potential readers may be interested in this interview about the book on Nomad Podcast (https://www.nomadpodcast.co.uk/lucy-sixsmith-soul-survivor-surrender-the-cost-of-being-special-n365/).