(RNS) Sister Margaret A. Farley, a Roman Catholic nun and former Yale Divinity School ethicist, has been awarded the prestigious Grawemeyer Award in Religion by the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the University of Louisville.
A member of the Sisters of Mercy, Farley received the award for her book, Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics, which was called “an important message in light of all the confusion surrounding sexuality today.”
“The religious right issues stark decrees while the entertainment industry tells us ‘anything goes,'” said Louisville seminary professor Susan Garrett, who directs the award program. Farley’s work draws “clear and compelling guidelines from Christian tradition on what makes love ‘just.'”
Farley, the first woman to teach full-time at Yale Divinity School, is past president of the Society of Christian Ethics and the Catholic Theological Society of America.
