Every night of the year, a long, muffled signal sounds over central Ystad Sweden. With a single note every fifteen minutes, blown to each of the four cardinal points, the Watchman in St:a Maria church declares ‘All’s well’, a living tradition that dates back many hundreds of years. It is a great tradition but I really hope Swedes would understand the real meaning with a watchman and the question: is it all well? I Hope that the watchman attitude would not only be in a church in the very south parts of Sweden and as an old tradition, I really hope we could have "real watchmen", warning us for whats to come...
Living in a city as I am, in Malmo, Sweden, it feels natural to talk about bridges.In the year 2000 we got a bridge over the Sound to Copenhagen, Denmark. A bridge between two nations once fighting each other, now connected.We need to continue to build bridges, between different cultures, ideas, people etc. These bridges are harder to build but necessary in the society we have today.We need these bridges in order to reach people with the "Good news"