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Dr. Michael Higgins is currently Senior Executive in Residence at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut. He is past president of St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo in Ontario and of St. Thomas University in New Brunswick. With effect from July 1 of this year, Dr. Higgins will assume the title of Vice-President, University Mission and Catholic Identity at Sacred Heart University.
A prolific and distinguished writer, Professor Higgins is the author of several books, including the award-winning Heretic Blood: The Spiritual Geography of Thomas Merton; Stalking the Holy: The Pursuit of Saint-Making; and co-author of The Jesuit Mystique and Power and Peril: The Catholic Church at the Crossroads.
Dr. Higgins has also been a columnist, a radio documentary maker, and a television commentator. The recipient of many awards and honors, he is currently preparing a radio documentary series on Henri Nouwen and teaching a course on Nouwen at Sacred Heart University. His next major project will be the biography of Henri J.M. Nouwen, the only biographical account of Nouwen’s life and works to be authorized by The Henri Nouwen Legacy Trust.
Dr. Higgins will present to us Henri Nouwen and the Mysticism of the Everyday in which he will examine Nouwen’s key spiritual notions of woundedeness, compassion, and life signs. According to Dr. Higgins, “Henri Nouwen offers all of us a route to meaningful integration in a world of conflicting visions, ideologies, and philosophies.”