Greg Sheridan is one of Australia’s leading journalists and media commentators. As the long-time Foreign Editor of The Australian newspaper, he has a well-founded reputation for knowledgeable reporting and incisive criticism.
God Is Good for You is in some ways an unexpected work, for it traverses different ground from his other six books—such as Asian Values, Western Dreams (1999), which studied the cultural relationship between Asia and the West, and The Partnership (2006), which told the inside story of the U.S.–Australian alliance in the era of 9/11.
Yet the subject matter of his latest book—the nature and impact of Christian belief in present-day Australia and more broadly all Western societies—will not surprise readers of his previous book, When We Were Young and Foolish (2015). There he revealed his religious background, shaped by a staunchly Irish-Catholic upbringing in suburban Sydney in the 1960s and 1970s. But Sheridan is more than a cultural Catholic. He believes; and he is deeply conscious of the springs of conviction that lie beneath a higher faith. His family life and university experience gave him a grounding in history and politics, which steered him into journalism.
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