Brother Nikanor, a NASDAQ broker turned monk, advises former colleagues to put a jar of soil on their desks to remind them where we are all heading and what matters in life.
As Western banks fold into each other like crumpled tickets and commentators portray the current crisis as the last gasp of modern capitalism, Nikanor, 32 -- his birth name is Hristo Mishkov -- shares the pain and offers home truths.
His story partly resembles that of Brother Ty, the monk-tycoon protagonist of the 1998 book God is my Broker. ...