# Review Coming into this book, I thought it would just be about "LGBT" issues and how "love" is defined in those communities. While that was touched upon, the main focus of the book is to search out what love truly is and how out culture has drifted away from that definition, not just in the context of modern sexual and gender confusion, but in other areas as well. I appreciated the caution against defining love by what we see in media, whether that be in music, films or television shows, social media, or other more sinister avenues like pornography. Rev. Borg pulls us back to what God says in the bible to encourage us to love appropriately. A large portion of the book is an explication of 1 Corinthians 13. >Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. >**1 Corinthians 13:1-8 (KJV)** *Charity* here is the word the King James Version uses for *love*. I like this word, as it implies something that is active and for the good of others, not self-seeking or self-gratifying. This small book does an excellent job bringing us back to the basics in how God would have us think and act toward one another. # Data ![[2024 Book Reading List#^8f2892]] #books