An important question in Christian ethics is the relation between our moral obligations to humanity at large and those within particular, intensive love relationships - between agape and special relations. I enter this debate through an examination of a particular category of special relations, one which receives little attention in the literature: dependent care relations, including relations between caregivers and children, infirm elderly, and disabled persons. I then place the conversation within Christian ethics into dialogue with feminist political theories attending to the pervasiveness of dependency in human life. I argue that a feminist conception of agape that is faithful both to the experience of dependent care relations and to the scriptural account of Christian neighbor-love must integrate fulfillment of basic material needs such as food, shelter, and health care with an active regard for universal human dignity. This conception of agape makes special relations central as the concrete context in which our substantial bodily and emotional needs are met, and requires critical appraisal of how dependent care is structured through cultural, economic, and political institutions which are often unjust and exploitative to caregivers.