There’s a lot to be happy about and I wish everyone a Merry Christmas.

My gift to you is a new series of podcasts where you get close to some of the people who mean a lot to many: The Mystics.

Many people know them, many don’t, and there are many misunderstandings and perhaps even confusion about why they are called what they are. Because they are not really mysterious at all, but then again. They carry a mystery. Whatever their faith, it is so ingrained in them that they live it out every second, whether it hurts or brings joy, they are in relationship with God.

Mystics have been around for millennia and have become increasingly relevant in recent years, perhaps because they are often so concrete in their thinking: What can faith do in the life we are living right now?

At the same time, they take an eternal look at the fact that we live here on earth for such a short time.

And they manage to communicate about it.

You’ll get to meet some of the famous ones like the Spanish monk and poet John of the Cross, the German medicine and music expert Hildegard of Bingen and the controversial Simone Weil.

The first person you’ll meet is Swedish: Dag Hammarskjöld.

He is portrayed here by Kim Frans Broström (in a cropped version) on the cover of “The Longest Journey”, published by Institut Sankt Joseph, which he wrote together with priest Jesper Fich and my conversation partner, principal Peter Franklin Højlund.

Listen to the conversation right here on my website or wherever you find podcasts.

PS
On December 25, the Swedish premiere of a film about him and the Danish premiere of the radio program Audiens on DR’s P1 will take place, and the publisher Boesdal has just published his secret texts in a new translation.