[the invisib1e hand]

I want to recommend, as an adjunct to this topic, a book by Mark Ritchie, called "God in the Pits."

Mark is legendary commodities trader who grew up in Afghanistan where his parents were missionaries.

It's a great book all around, but he tells a story about a local there he visited after he had grown up and made it big. I think the local remembered his parents, and welcomed the American millionaire into his mud-floored hut with a grace and honor that laid the author low.

It was a very touching scene, and an insight into local lore and the predicament of the Afghan peasant that you just won't get from CNN.

[onyx]

Thank you. It sounds like a book I will enjoy.

[Quix]

Sounds like an excellent book well worth the time.

Is the commodities trader still a Christian?

Thanks.