As we come to the end of the Church Year, we encounter Sunday Readings that reflect the end of this age, and the coming of Christ the King. Our Lord’s return has to do with the judgment of the world. Indeed, justice will prevail in the end. And His return will also bring in the fullness or consummation of God’s Kingdom, which was inaugurated at Christ’s first Advent. For repentant sinners putting their faith in Christ, this will be a reunion with all the saints, and the incredible basking in Christ’s glory in a blessed state beyond imagining.

In Wisconsin we are in the midst of voting. We are doing so in a contentious climate with elevated levels of polarity. The rhetoric is overheated. “This is the most consequential election of your life.” “The survival of the republic is at stake.” And on and on it goes.