How good are memoirs? In his testimony to Christian faith, Scott Morrison talks to God and God talks back

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“How good is God?” Some might take that question as a philosophical inquiry about the existence of evil in a world supposedly ruled by a merciful deity. Australians, however, may recognise the banal “daggy dad” speech pattern of former prime minister Scott Morrison. In Plans for Your Good: A Prime Minister’s Testimony of God’s Faithfulness, “how good is God?” is not a question, it’s a rhetorical preamble to a book that uses crucial political issues and personal anecdotes as mere springboards to rapturous praise of the Christian faith. The recent news stories about the book understandably focused on Morrison seeking...