About Andrew DeCort
Andrew DeCort has been called a dissident theologian by his
friends. His work is deeply inspired by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, his writing
by James Baldwin, his spirituality by Etty Hillesum.
Andrew received his PhD in religious and political ethics from the University of Chicago. In 2016, he founded the Institute for Faith and Flourishing in Chicago. In 2019, he co-founded the Neighbor-Love Movement
in Ethiopia. IFF and NLM have reached over twenty million people with
the invitation to nonviolent spirituality. Andrew has taught ethics,
public theology, peace and conflict studies, and Ethiopian studies at
Wheaton College, the Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology, and the
University of Bonn.
Andrew is the author of Reviving the Golden Rule: How the Ancient Ethic of Neighbor Love Can Heal the World (IVP Academic, 2025), Blessed Are the Others: Jesus’ Way in a Violent World (BitterSweet Collective, 2024), Flourishing on the Edge of Faith: Seven Practices for a New We (BitterSweet Collective, 2022) and Bonhoeffer’s New Beginning: Ethics after Devastation (Fortress Academic, 2018). His words have appeared in Foreign Policy, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the BBC, The
Atlantic, The Economist, Christianity Today, Comment Magazine,
Sojourners, The Other Journal, Wheaton College Magazine, The Journal of
Religion, Political Theology, All Africa, BitterSweet Monthly, and numerous other platforms. Andrew writes the newsletter Stop & Think here at andrew-decort.com. He lives in Chicago with his wife Lily, a luminous painter.
Follow Andrew on Facebook and email him at andrew.d.decort@gmail.com.
