Andrew Stone Porter is Visiting Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies and Louisville Institute Fellow at Bellarmine University. He is a scholar, music minister, activist, parent & partner, and beekeeper/gardener.

Andrew is a social ethicist interested in the impossible and necessary work of justice, love and decency. His work tracks how moral languages can inform, mask, underwrite, and potentially subvert regimes of power.

Andrew holds a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in Religion: Ethics & Society, with certificates in African American & Diaspora Studies and Women & Gender Studies; an M.Div. from Harvard Divinity School; and a B.A. in Philosophy from Bellarmine University. He was a United States Peace Corps Volunteer in Bolivia and Paraguay from 2008-2010. He serves as Music Minister at St. William Catholic Church in Louisville, KY, and on the Leadership Team of the Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Justice.

Andrew’s work has appeared in the American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, the Journal of Religious Ethics, the Political Theology Network, The Other Journal, and more. He lives in Louisville, KY with his partner Shannon and their three children, Kristopher, Kyle, and Amelia.