One of my artistic heroes is the actor Ned Beatty. He can do anything, but I admire him most for the film Deliverance. In an excruciating scene, Beatty is raped by another man after being stripped naked and humiliated. I could never figure out how Beatty had the courage to let all of that be…
On mandated forgiveness
July 3, 2014
Louis Zamperini died today at the age of ninety-seven. He was an Olympic distance runner and the subject of Laura Hillenbrand’s book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. I read the book and enjoyed it until the end. Zamperini forgave the Japanese war criminals who tortured him, even though they…