Our conversation reminds me of a little poem that I put to memory after discovering one of my professors had been a Christian too. He shared it with me then, and I’ll share it with you now: If only the good were clever, If only the clever were good, The world would be better than ever We thought that it possibly could. But, alas, it is seldom or never That either behave as they should: For the good are so harsh to the clever, The clever so rude to the good.5 “That’s exactly how I see it at times,” I agreed heartily. “Who wrote it?” “Elizabeth Wordsworth,
