Steve Morris
My choice: 5 great novels of 2017
All these books deal with history in their own way. They all chew over what it is to be a modern person and what it is to face dilemmas.
'I am so lonely I sometimes want to die': The scandal that's a challenge to the Church
I stumbled across loneliness. People in my congregation told me how they sometimes didn't see a living soul all week.
Why Christians should read some old books: here are 5 gems
I have wrestled some time with the problem of modern Christian books. I love trees and I hate to see them go to waste â cut down and placed on the altar of modernity, and especially modern books.
Why Christians should learn to love fiction
It is a question that really tested me. What five books have changed your life, excluding the Bible?
In your hour of need, who do you want holding your hand?
We need boldly to claim the power of being there. And to claim the amazing work of ministers, nuns, chaplains and all those who follow the tough path of ministry.
Can I get a hedge of protection? Why Christians need to mind our language
There is a whole range of rather wonderful pious phrases that either mean nothing or mean something rather different from what they appear to say.
DIY church: It's beautifully ramshackle, but it works
As a priest I just want to make sure that we nurture enthusiasm, creativity and talent much better than what happened back in the '80s.
Beginnings, memories and endings: why everyone's story matters
Rev Steve Morris on his church's memory café - their weekly offering to our community. 'It is a place where people are forgetting their stories â slowly and inexorably as Alzheimer's takes hold. We've been listening to people to people life tales and recording them, so that when they forget we have them still.'
This alternative to all-age worship really works
When we analysed our service numbers here when I first started, we realised that our all-age Sunday service was the least well-attended. Even some of the families weren't coming.
Being abused, dog sitting, bashing doors down with sledgehammers â all in the name of being a priest
Why did this parish priest take a sledgehammer to smash down the door of his churchwarden?
Why Alzheimer's isn't the end of everything: Requiem for my friend Pat
There is a tendency when someone has dementia to mourn the person they were. That is natural. But how can we celebrate who they are with dementia?
Hats off to subversive prayers
At a previous church we set up a prayer tree â well, it was actually a handsome shrub.
Loneliness in older people is a scandal. Here's what one church is doing about it
There is an epidemic of elder-loneliness on our doorsteps. Churches can set up memory cafes and do something about it â and create new communities at the same time.
Does preaching work? A thought-provoking conversation at the crematorium
Preaching is harder than you think. Especially as people don't seem to remember what you say.
If we were allowed to vote by majority on the existence of God, who would win?
'To honour any person in a discussion about God, for instance, we need to be prepared to change our own mind if we realise that we are wrong.' Theatre review â Four star review for Majority at the Dorfman, National Theatre London
The things people say â snapshots from a parish priest
Sometimes I wonder if it's people getting tongue-tied or intimidated by the dog collar. Perhaps it is the one occasion where the sheep can have a bite at the shepherd.