Farley published "Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics" in 2006. The critical reception was "widespread praise", leading to its use as a textbook in college courses on sexual ethics. A reviewer in "Commonweal" noted that Farley "at times ... has become a point of polarization", called the book "an important resource and spur for further collaboration among Christians and others on the knotty issues of sexual ethics", but faulted it for "paylittle attention to the ecclesial character of sexual ethics" and asked for "a more robust engagement with both the problems and possibilities offered by biblical witness." He hoped the book would "escape the sort of polarized responses that the temper of the times seems to elicit."