Gareth Higgins is a writer living in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Belfast ( is the capital city of Northern Ireland and the seat of government in Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a Country within the United Kingdom, lying in the northeast of
He is a graduate in sociology from Queen's University of Belfast (BA, PhD). Queen's University Belfast is a university in Belfast, Northern Ireland. A bachelor's degree is usually an Undergraduate Academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts for three four or in some cases and "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. He is a co-founder (in 1998) of the zero28 Project, a faith-based peace and justice initiative in Northern Ireland. He has written and spoken widely on religion and conflict, art and spirituality, postmodern theology and practice, and film, with his work appearing in The Independent, The Irish Times, Sojourners, and Third Way Magazine, among others. Third Way Magazine is a UK current-affairs magazine written from a Christian perspective
He appears regularly on BBC Radio, and in October 2006 he and Jett Loe began a film review podcast called 'Film Talk'. Jett Loe is an American television director and artist He currently lives in Nashville Tennessee where he takes on a variety of artistic projects such as his weekly
Selected Publications
Anti-Catholicism in Northern Ireland, co-authored with John D Brewer (Palgrave, 1998)
How Movies Helped Save My Soul: Finding Spiritual Fingerprints in Culturally Significant Films (Relevant Books, 2003)
Chapter in: Researching the Troubles: Social Science Perspectives on the Northern Ireland Conflict (Mainstream, 2004)
Chapter in: Artisans of Peace: Grassroots Peacemaking Among Christian Communities (Orbis, 2003)
Article on 'Free Presbyterianism' in The Encyclopaedia of Ireland (Gill & Macmillan, 2004)
External links
- zero28 website
- Church of Ireland Gazette
- BBC Radio Ulster Arts Extra
- Higgins' blog
- John O'Donohue: In Memoriam
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