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 a 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 Blessed Are the Others (BitterSweet Collective: 2024), Flourishing on the Edge of Faith: Seven Practices for a New We (BitterSweet Collective: 2022), Neighbor-Love: How an Ancient Revolution Can Overcome Othering and Heal our World (IVP Academic: Forthcoming), and Bonhoeffer’s New Beginning: Ethics after Devastation (Fortress Academic: 2018). His words have appeared in Foreign Policy, 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 at andrew-decort.com.

He lives in Chicago with his wife Lily, a gentle spirit and luminous painter.