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Yale Divinity School Professor Margaret Farley will speak on “Gender, Sexuality and Ethics” at Gonzaga University’s 31st annual Flannery Lecture at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, March 22, in the Globe Room at Cataldo Hall.

Margaret Farley 
Gonzaga University Flannery Lecturer 2007

Farley holds the Gilbert L. Stark Chair in Christian Ethics at Yale Divinity School, where she has been a faculty member since 1971. She received an undergraduate degree and a master’s from the University of Detroit and a doctorate in religious studies with a specialization in ethics from Yale.

She has authored or co-edited six books, including “Personal Commitments: Beginning, Keeping, Changing,” “Compassionate Respect” and, most recently, “Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics.” She also has published more than 90 articles and chapters of books on ethics and spirituality.

Farley is past president of the Society of Christian Ethics and the Catholic Theological Society of America as well as being a recipient of the latter organization’s John Courtney Murray Award for Excellence in Theology. She was a founding member of the Bioethics Committee at the Yale-New Haven Hospital; director of the Yale Divinity School Project on Gender, Faith, and Responses to HIV/AIDS in Africa; and co-director of the All-Africa Conference: Sister to Sister, which facilitates responses to HIV/AIDS on the part of Roman Catholic women in Africa.

The annual Flannery Lecture is made possible by a gift from the late Maud and Milo Flannery to further excellence in theological study and teaching at Gonzaga. The lecture is delivered each year by an outstanding Catholic theologian and is designed to benefit as wide an audience as possible.

For more information, contact Gail Jennings, senior faculty assistant in the GU religious studies department at (509) 323-6782.