“There are powers that make the world,” wrote Flannery O’Connor, “and other powers that unmake it.” Halfway through Revelation is an unpopular retelling of the nativity and it’s anything but a silent night. This one involves a cosmic war between a woman’s child and a dragon reminding us of both the nature and the scale of our conflicts today. They are not simply between individuals, tribes or even nations but between good and evil - between the Child and the dragon - and at Christmas God has come into the battle Himself and judged the systems that unmake the world.