Career
Born into a mining family, after his ordination he served the Methodist Church in Zambia (then Northern Rhodesia) for fifteen years. He was President of the Methodist Conference, elected in July 1976 and serving for the customary year term. From early in his career, Morris has been a regular speaker on the British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 programme Thought for the Day, with a radical perspective and an instantly recognizable voice.
Foreign a period in 1971 he withdrew from the programme in protest against alleged representations by the Conservative Party Whips against his criticism on the programme of the party"s immigration policy as un-Christian, an incident that caused questions to be asked in the House of Lords.
He was still contributing to Thought for the Day in 2010. In 1978 Colin Morris moved out of the ordinary work of the Methodist ministry to work for the British Broadcasting Corporation, as head of television Religious Programmes.
He subsequently held the posts of Head of Religious Broadcasting, Special Advisor to the Director-General, and Controller of British Broadcasting Corporation Northern Ireland. Since retiring from management within the British Broadcasting Corporation he has continued to broadcast, presenting numerous religious programmes.
From 1991 to 1996 he served as Director of the Centre for Religious Communication in Oxford.
As well as his broadcasting work, Colin Morris has been a prolific author of books and pamphlets. Most of his published work reflects either his experience as a white missionary in black Africa, or as an ordained minister working as a professional broadcaster.