There are times when the obvious answer is just there.

People feel dull for saying such obvious things, but a lot of the time, when we are talking about something life-altering, eschatological, cosmological, incarnational, miraculous, or theological, the answer is . . . Jesus.

This quote from Andrew Sullivan's The Daily Dish (yanked from another blog) is begging for the Sunday School Answer:

''My sense of the holy, insofar as I have one, is bound up with the hope that someday, any millennium now, my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law. In such a society, communication would be domination-free, class and caste would be unknown, hierarchy would be a matter of temporary pragmatic convenience, and power would be entirely at the disposal of the free agreement of a literate and well-educated electorate... [I have] no idea of how such a society could come about. It is, one might say, a mystery. This mystery, like that of the Incarnation, concerns the coming into existence of a love that is kind, patient, and endures all things,'' - the late Richard Rorty, in an exchange with philosopher Gianni Vattimo.