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Dave Andrews's latest book, To Right Every Wrong, is the last in the Dave Andrews Legacy Series. It is a funny, sad, brutally honest retrospective, reflecting on what it has meant for him and his family to seek to live a lifetime dedicated to love and justice. The reflections in this book, subtitled The Making and Unmaking of One Improbable Minor Prophet, come in three parts--the personal, the prophetical, and the paradoxical. The personal par...

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Plan Be is a simple practical easy-to-use manual for a do-it-yourself global ethical revolution.In this book Dave Andrews rescues the 'beatitudes' from their obscurity as a poetic introduction to Jesus' sermon on the Mount, and reframes them as a set of radical 'Be-Attitudes' that we can use as a life-changing framework for 'being the change we want to see in the world'.In 8 concise punchy chapters Dave unpacks the hidden dynamics in the 8 Be-...

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Building A Better World is a classic resource manual for anyone who wants to work for change in our world. Dave Andrews urges us to act on our growing sense of distress about the way the world is and to take simple, radical-yet-practical steps to explore the possibility of building a new world out of the ruins of the old - creating safe sustainable spaces, where everyone is accepted as person in their own right, where people are respected for ...

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Many of us ask not how but if we can truly embody the Be-Attitudes in a world characterized by poverty and violence. This title begins with the kingdom, or 'kindom', Jesus talked about and shows readers how the kingdom of heaven can indeed come on earth as it is in heaven - through us.

Ramadan is one of the Five Pillars of Islam, a time for self-examination, devotion and reading the scriptures.In this latest book of Christian-Muslim reflections Dave Andrews again takes lessons from this time of fasting, offering guidance to the adherents of all three Abrahamic faiths. While fasting is out of fashion in our consumerist society, Dave Andrews shows how through it we can recognise both our human weaknesses and our capacity to he...

As a leading community development practitioner, Dave Andrews has enjoyed the friendship of people from various religious traditions and has sought to find common ground with his Muslim friends In this reflective reader he has sought to bring about a respectful listening regarding the Messiah from the New Testament tradition and that of the Muslim faith This is the song of a God for all and close to all: a God in whom we have our very being wh...

Dave Andrews is no sit-down Christian. Hes an activist, driven by a belief in a radical compassion that can change the world from a mean place to a loving community, amongst people of all religions. One of the ways he demonstrates it is by entering into a dialogue with Muslim friends. For the month of Ramadan, Dave kept a Spiritual Diary. In it he explores the points of enrichment which he finds in considering the Bismillah, the praise found a...

What was Jesus hoping to accomplish by laying down his life for his friends? And what has his death on the cross 2000 years ago got to do with us today? These are the questions CRUX answers, by re-examining the place of the story of the cross in the process of transformation. This book contends that the cross has the power to inspire a faith that can challenge the status quo and infuse our work for love and justice with infinite significance, ...

Out And Out has been written in response to the questions that Dave Andrews, the radical Christian community worker, has been asked again and again by Christian community workers all over the world. And the answers that he shares with us in this book have been forged and tested in the fire of his own personal, vocational and professional experience as a grass roots community worker. Out And Out is an attempt to explore what he calls Christian ...

Down Under has been written in response to the questions that Dave Andrews, the world-renowned Australian community worker, has been asked again and again by community workers all over the world. And the answers that he shares with us in this book have been forged and tested in the fire of his own personal, vocational and professional experience as a grass roots community worker. Down Under addresses the adverse effects of professionalisation ...

Endorsements: "The doctrine of the Trinity--that God is one and yet three and three without ceasing to be one--is for many people the most perplexing of all beliefs. How does one make sense of it? Dave Andrews has meditated long and hard on what this most mysterious and beautiful of religious beliefs means, not just at a theoretical or speculative level, but also at a practical, down-to-earth level. It's an indispensable paradigm for living t...

Synopsis: Examples of people around the world and throughout history who have embodied Christ-like compassionate community work. Endorsements: 'Are you looking for some inspiration to lead a life worthy of Christ? Dave Andrews' People of Compassion may be the book for you! The collection of forty of these biographies into one volume provides a valuable source of encouragement and instruction by example in the area of compassion. The focus is o...

Synopsis: How does Jesus, and the ancient Scriptures he held sacred, help us get our bearings in this multifarious, complicated, conflicted, and increasingly endangered planet? First, seek theological insight that can guide our practice. In "Navigating the Meanings of Being a Christian, " Mark Deleaney invites us on his journey of theological reflection twenty years after his certainties were shaken by a life-changing encounter in an Indian sl...