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Andrew Francis is a UK-based community theologian as well as a published writer and poet. He now focuses much of his other public ministry as a conference speaker, seminar leader, and Christian preacher.

After early studies in law and theology, he went on to gain an MTh for his thesis on radical Christian communities, resulting in Anabaptism: Radical Christianity (2011). Later, he studied for his doctorate at Princeton Theological Seminary. His dissertation there explored the Christian use of hospitality and shared food; this was published in a UK popular version: Hospitality and Community After Christendom (2012). Until cardiac illness intervened, he served for nearly thirty years as a congregationally based United Reformed Church pastor, in the UK and France.

He has also served the wider church as an adult educator and group accompanier as well as working for the BBC as a broadcaster and religious programs editor. He oversaw the building and early development of a French retreat house. He was the UK’s first Anabaptist Network development worker and formerly was vice-chair of the UK’s Mennonite Trust.

His social policy writing includes his previous Cascade book, What in God’s Name Are You Eating? (2014), about food ethics, and the multi-authored Foxes Have Holes: Reflections upon Britain’s Housing Need (2016), which he edited. A biographical study of a theologian, Dorothee Soelle: Life and Work (2015), is to be followed by one of English writer Lawrence Durrell in 2019. His other theological work includes Shalom: The Jesus Manifesto (2016), an in-production theology of mission for 2018, and a future liturgical/pastoral theology volume.

A former potter and artist, he is a joyful cook and jam-maker, enjoying growing food in his community garden. He lives in southwest England. His personal website is www.anmchara.com; anmchara is Gaelic for “soul friend.”