Saul's conversion is important to us because we are always wanting detailed accounts of the journey of those people who have become great or famous. They always fascinate us. We avidly consume all the minute specifics we can find about them, sometimes even stooping to seek out tidbits of gossip. We are titillated by the trivial. Why was Sir Winston Churchill buried in a small country cemetery rather than in Westminster Abbey? Why was Churchill born in the servant's quarters of Blenheim Palace rather than in the upstairs rooms reserved for dignitaries? Did Franklin D. Roosevelt have a mistress and did John F. Kennedy have extramarital affairs? Has the passion gone from the marriage of Prince Charles and Princess Di? Will Elizabeth Taylor marry yet again? Insatiable is our appetite for singu…