Advent and the "Scandal of Christmas"

If Sunday was the Feast of Christ the King, then Advent is just around the corner, prompting each of us to ask: What am I doing to help birth Christ into the world. 

My friend John Freund over at famvin has been focusing attention on systemic change as a means to address poverty.  As Advent approaches, he shares the thought that the "first Christmas set off the greatest systemic change ever when God became one with us - in a stable no less: What a scandal!  God became one with us."  He desribes in his post an international movement called the "Advent Conspiracy", a movement "dedicated to restoring the scandal of Christmas by worshipping Jesus through compassion, not consumption."  Their website is here.