Meeting 'Father Maximos'

And: The sharks are everywhere, but you have to swim on

Metropolitan Athanasios — ‘Father Maximos’ of The Mountain of Silence

Just arrived back in Vienna from Dallas. I barely have time to wash my clothes before I have to head out again — this time to Limassol, Cyprus, to interview Metropolitan Athanasios (in Orthodoxy, a “metropolitan” is the word we use for '“archbishop”), for my book on re-enchantment. Wh…