On New Beginnings and Neighbor-Love with Andrew DeCort

Andrew DeCort is founder of the neighbor-love movement and author of the book Bonhoeffer’s New Beginning: Ethics after Devastation. Andrew tells John about how witnessing state violence changed his view of vocation and inspired him to start the neighbor-love movement. He discusses how his vocation as an ethicist is to live with and for others, how diversity is a result of being made in God’s image, and why neighbor-love is more than a feeling.

Witnessing state violence

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Radical humility

New beginnings

Connection between unity and diversity

Christianity over nationalism

Biblical understanding of diversity

Links:

Bonhoeffer’s New Beginning: Ethics after Devastation by Andrew DeCort

Neighbor-love movement website

Interpreting Ethiopia Don Levine

Jean Elshtain

William Schweiker

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Unity and Diversity are Neighbors, and So Are We,” by Andrew DeCort

Joint Declaration for Human Value and Nonviolence in Ethiopia

Neighbor-love course

Neighbor-love covenant

30-day neighbor-love mindfulness exercise

Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr.

Charles Taylor

Creating Capabilities by Martha Nussbaum