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Inaugural Lecture of the Karen Lebacqz Endowment in Ethics

"The Rainbow of Justice: Illuminating The Character and Manifestations of God's Justice"
 
“I have set my rainbow in the clouds and it will be the sign between me and the earth.” (Genesis 9:13) In this inaugural lecture, former professor of theological ethics and now award-­‐winning quilter, Karen Lebacqz, draws on her passionate commitment to justice in a playful exploration of the ways in which the colors of the rainbow illustrate something important for the character and manifestation of God’s justice: the passion of red, the tenacity of orange, the war