A very Merry and blessed Christmas to all my readers and their families.

Here is J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio BWV 248. It’s over two hours long but the whole thing is well worth listening to. I am firmly convinced that Bach’s music is one of the pinnacles of Western civilisation – the very best that Christendom has to offer.

Who better, then, to celebrate the Incarnation, the Word made flesh, God among us: the most significant event in human history.