Morrison enlists former VP Pence to write foreword for Christian memoir

Former prime minister Scott Morrison’s book canvassing his Christian faith has been endorsed by fellow high-profile Christian and former US vice president Mike Pence.

Pence, who served as Donald Trump’s vice president and who is well known for his own evangelical views, has written the foreword to Morrison’s book.

Scott Morrison and Mike Pence when they were serving as Australian prime minister and US vice president respectively.Credit: AP

Pence’s name features prominently on the cover of Morrison’s forthcoming Christian tell-all, Plans for Your Good – A Prime Minister’s Testimony of God’s Faithfulness.

As previously reported by the Herald and The Age, the book will be marketed to Christians around the world, including in the booming US market. It will have 288 pages of “less political memoir and more pastoral encouragement”, according to FaithGateway, a Christian book site owned by Harper Collins Christian Publishing.

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Harper Collins Christian Publishing division Thomas Nelson is publishing the memoir.

“It has been written with a broader audience in mind,” Morrison said in September. “It hasn’t been written to be available only in bookshops in Canberra. Particularly in the US, but beyond that too.”

The content of Pence’s foreword is yet to be released, but it’s perhaps unsurprising that the former vice president would contribute to such a book given his well-documented faith. In 2022, he released his own book, So Help Me God.

The pair seemed to have had a constructing working relationship while in office, with Morrison calling Pence rather than Trump when the Republicans lost the 2020 US election.

“Full of fascinating insights into the handling of some of the most significant global events and issues of our time, Morrison’s honest, vulnerable and reflective answers offer a unique lens to better understand your relationship with God and the blessing that can flow from such a relationship,” the publisher’s description reads.

“Alongside an account of high-level politics in a new media age where cancel culture, identity politics and deep secularisation [are] taking hold across so many Western societies, creating a truly post-Christian West, Morrison testifies to the faithful love and blessings of God.”

This masthead previously reported that Morrison confirmed the book would be marketed in the booming US religious publishing market, where sales of similar books reached $US757 million ($1.175 billion) in 2022 after a 15 per cent sales surge between 2019 and 2021 that Publishers’ Weekly credited to the pandemic.

Morrison’s Pentecostal faith was a constant during his time as prime minister. After his election defeat in 2022, his first major public address was to the Pentecostal Encounter City Church in Perth.

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