Blinks

I've been slowly working at my google reader since coming back to work (and making New Year's resolutions along the way about subscribing to so many things I can't keep up with) but here are two interesting articles I dug out of Opinionator along the way:

Narrative and the Grace of God, by Stanley Fish, about the Coen brothers' movie version of True Grit. (I know nothing about True Grit, but this was worth reading all the same.)

On Forgiveness, by Charles L Griswold, which was so long I started skimming it, but reflects perhaps prevailing philosophical thought on what forgiveness is. He concludes with:

While religious and secular perspectives on forgiveness are not necessarily consistent with each other, however, they agree in their attempt to address the painful fact of the pervasiveness of moral wrong in human life. They also agree on this: few of us are altogether innocent of the need for forgiveness.

And this was actually just amusing, on The True Meaning of Christmas.