Debbie Higgens is about to trade in her job as English professor at Southern Adventist University to become a resident director.
She won’t be disputing fights between roommates, checking rooms for alcohol and monitoring dorms, though. Her residents are on a bit higher plain.
Higgens, beginning in August, will serve for two years as the volunteer resident director of The Kilns, home of the late Christian apologist C.S. Lewis, in Oxford, England.
“It is my wish to bring honor to God and to have him glorify himself through me in this position,” she said.
As the home’s fourth resident director but first from the academic world, Higgens will oversee the program that allows scholars working on their doctoral programs at Oxford University to stay at The Kilns. She also will be an ambassador for the life and works of the author to the community of Oxford and to those who visit the home.