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 thirty 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, the University of Bonn, and the American Theological Institute in West Africa.

Andrew is the author of five books: When the Soul Felt Its Worth: Meditations on the Birth of God (forthcoming), 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. Follow Andrew on his personal website, Facebook, and Substack.