“Damned of This Earth,” as Frantz Fanon put it, those who are excluded by a self-righteous society and who are humiliated by a violent class, are the ones God has elected to hear the gospel of the kingdom. The jobless and the homeless and the migrants in this unjust world receive the “election of grace.” The lost will be found, the last will be the first, and hope is coming to the desperate. When Mary became pregnant she believed God had seen the low estate of his handmaiden and had chosen her to