Virtues
Love
Love, compassion, charity, and respect as the relational fabric of marriage and family — tenderness toward a spouse, patience with children, mercy extended in hardship.
What's at issue
Love, compassion, charity, and respect as the relational fabric of marriage and family — tenderness toward a spouse, patience with children, mercy extended in hardship. Specifically love as it operates within the home, not Christian love as a general theological topic.
Where it appears in the Proclamation
Reading
- Can I Love Someone Who Identifies as LGBT and Still Stand for What Christ Taught?
- Challenging the Stories We Tell Ourselves
- CONFLICT IS NATURAL: HOW WE MISTAKE DISCOMFORT FOR DESTRUCTION
- How Can I Speak the Truth About Marriage and Family in Love?
- I Want to Get Married—So How Do I Actually Find Someone?
- If Love Is What Matters, Why Does God Say Marriage Is Between a Man and a Woman?
- PEACEMAKING, REDFINED: WHY CIVILITY FEELS SO RADICAL
- Should I Attend a Same-Sex Wedding?
- THE ART OF PEACEMAKING: CONTROLLING ANGER BY BRIDGING LOGIC AND EMOTION
- The Fascinating Story of Becket Cook
- Why Elder Holland Wants Us to Use This One Phrase When Talking About the Family
- Will Marriage Actually Make Me Happier?