The Bookshelf
Timothy HoilandEssays on books, faith, and our life in the world.
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[The Bookshelf #115] In Praise of Tears
Rogier van der Weyden, Descent from the Cross (detail), c. 1435
Ten years ago this spring, Facebook rolled out a feature called “Reactions.” Gone were the days of merely deciding whether a post warranted a “like.” Now you could choose from...
[The Bookshelf #114] 7 Books Shaping My Imagination
I have one or two essays underway on books, faith, and our life in the world—coming soon, Lord willing. In the meantime I thought I’d briefly note some of the books that have been shaping my imagination, as the hymn puts it, “for the living...
[The Bookshelf #113] Three Crosses
I can still picture Tres Cruces as it was back then. A tiny hamlet on a mountain ridge in the far western reaches of Guatemala—a small country on a seismically volatile isthmus, lost (it would seem) between American continents. You’d be for...
[The Bookshelf #112] The Man in the Pew
“I’m 99% sure it’s him.”
L. whispers it, standing there in the back of the church, pointing his chin at the man in the second-to-last pew. I turn, taking a couple steps to my left, craning my neck for a better view.
With a shock of snow-w...
[The Bookshelf #111] Saying Goodbye to a Good House
On New Year’s Eve—after another day of bankers boxes, far too many decisions, and the umpteenth thrift store run—we decided to stay in. We ate takeout pizza on paper plates and rewatched The Holdovers, that quintessential film about holiday...
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