… you must realize that Advent and Christmas, are not mainly about the birth of Jesus. They are not, principally, about the past. They are about the future. They are drawing our attention to the Second Coming of Jesus and to the establishment of God’s Kingdom. “Thy Kingdom come” is an Advent/Christmas plea.

The remembrance of the birth of Jesus and the seasonal savoring of the depiction of that event with all the well-known characters and details do the job of defining who this Jesus is and what he is all about. But it is the awareness that we are in-between Jesus’ earthly walk and his Second Coming that frames the seasons of Advent and Christmas. It is our lot in life as believers to live not with the security of someone at the end of a journey but with the uncertainty of those on the way. We do not see Him face to face but only dimly through the eyes of faith. We are not enjoying the fulfillment of what He promised; instead, we get by on the energy of hope.

More than any other season, Advent/Christmas is our time because it instructs us on how to live with the Kingdom still a dream and how to struggle in the most real ways to bring it about. Advent and Christmas are all about equipping us to engage the evil that surrounds us and to live lives of virtue, as individuals and as communities, in order to expand that most profound reality first glimpsed in a stable, the divinization of the world.

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“Never, never vote for a Republican,” is one of the many admonitions my grandmother voiced that I do not forget. The echo of that saying is now joined by the sound of her rolling over in her grave because today I am a registered Republican. I do not feel guilty because I know that the Democrat Party she treasured is as dead as she is. Her political allegiance was formed by the desperation of the Depression and sealed by the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt. The Democrat Party was the champion of the commoner, a party that believed in government that actively sought to level the socio-economic playing field by giving people the resources and opportunity that position and privilege gave to others. The Democrats were the patrons of the immigrant, the lower middle class, the underdog. Powerful alliances were built by people who saw government as a prime tool in building the American Dream ...

 In these few pages, I will examine these developments in the Democrat Party not just with a view to justifying my own political choices, but, more so, to challenge those who remain Democrats to recapture essential party building blocks that have been toppled, and to plead with those in the Republican and other parties to preserve principles that have been disappearing from the political landscape in the United States.

(from the Introduction)