Everyone’s talking about Scott Morrison’s struggles with anxiety as prime minister. He’s been praised, rightly, for breaking that taboo. But if we still feel awkward, it’s because he broke another: Morrison’s book makes his private faith very, very public, and we don’t know what to do with it.
Australians cringe about faith. “God bless America” might be mandatory American political speak but historian Manning Clark nailed Australians’ religious instincts as “a shy hope in the heart”.
Well, shy Morrison’s book ain’t. The theme of Plans For Your Good: A Prime Minister’s Testimony of God’s Faithfulnessis God’s constant presence to Morrison, who says he “often felt like an alien in the place where I believe God has called me to serve” – an alien line …