Books
Writing excellent books is a core way that we fulfill our vision of nurturing a neighbor-love culture of faith and flourishing. Explore our titles below.
Reviving the Golden Rule: How the Ancient Ethic of Neighbor Love Can Heal the World
By Andrew DeCort
“The perfect fusion of simple and profound… Andrew DeCort does a masterful job diagnosing the problem and the cure."
– Shane Claiborne
Discover the transformational power of neighbor-love in theologian and ethicist Andrew DeCort’s Reviving the Golden Rule. This thought-provoking work illuminates the revolutionary ethics of loving your neighbor, weaving together history, theology, and practical guidance. Through this in-depth historical survey of the ethics of neighbor-love, DeCort invites readers to reclaim loving their neighbor as a powerful force for justice, healing, and human flourishing.
Blessed Are the Others: Jesus’ Way in a Violent World
By Andrew DeCort
“This book is required reading for those who understand the need for a deep connection between subtle analysis and empowered spirituality, especially as it relates to the prophetic Christian tradition!”
– Dr. Cornel West
Blessed Are the Others: Jesus’ Way in a Violent World by Andrew DeCort is a guide that navigates the teachings of Jesus through the lens of the Beatitudes. It offers a trail to a more fulfilling life through vulnerability, compassion, nonviolence, justice, and peacemaking, challenging conventional understandings of religious blessings and prosperity. Andrew calls this humane happiness.
Flourishing on the Edge of Faith: Seven Practices for a New We
By Andrew DeCort
“This book is subtle and radical… If you open your heart enough, it will introduce you to a new worldview, and maybe even change your world.”
– Eboo Patel, President, Interfaith America
With years of study, teaching, and peacemaking around the world, Dr. Andrew DeCort uncovers Jesus’s radical vision for human flourishing in the face of suffering and violence. Flourishing on the Edge of Faith invites us into that vision through a daily practice of praying with Jesus.
Balinjeraye (My Neighbor)
By Tekalign Nega
“[A] wonderful, urgent message. I encourage all of us to read this book, to discuss it in groups, and to pray about it."
– Dr. Mamusha Fenta
Balinjeraye ("My Neighbor") is the first book in an Ethiopian language devoted to loving our neighbors as ourselves. It challenges us to see and treat others as neighbors with unconditional love, surveying biblical literature and contemporary implications. This book is perfect for individual study and small group discussion.
Bonhoeffer’s New Beginning: Ethics after Devastation
By Andrew DeCort
“This is a groundbreaking work, ranging exhaustively over the Bonhoeffer corpus and the secondary literature. It reveals a new dimension of Bonhoeffer’s thought…that took him to his death.”
– David Gushee, past president of the American Academy of Religion
Bonhoeffer’s New Beginning investigates the ethics of making new beginnings after devastating moral rupture. We must make new beginnings in order to sustain our fundamental convictions that it is good to exist and that life in the world with others should be loved without exclusion. But how? If you’ve ever felt radical despair and ached for radical hope, this book is for you.