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[The Bookshelf #111] Saying Goodbye to a Good House
On learning to love what you'll lose, with James K.A. Smith.
Jan 8 • Timothy Hoiland
[The Bookshelf #110] My Favorite Books of 2025
13 of 'em, to be precise.
Dec 21, 2025 • Timothy Hoiland
[The Bookshelf #109] The Love That Is God
Summing up the infinite with Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt.
Nov 11, 2025 • Timothy Hoiland
[The Bookshelf #108] The Joys of Anticipation
In this case, of the literary and peripatetic variety.
Oct 4, 2025 • Timothy Hoiland
[The Bookshelf #107] Feeling Sentimental
Reflecting on faith, art, and sentimentality with The Painter of Light™
Sep 26, 2025 • Timothy Hoiland
[The Bookshelf #106] We Tell Ourselves Stories
Joan Didion wasn't trying to inspire us. She was saying beware.
Sep 1, 2025 • Timothy Hoiland
[The Bookshelf #105] I Met Augustine in Cambodia
Introducing my new Mockingbird essay.
Jul 25, 2025 • Timothy Hoiland
[The Bookshelf #104] Looking Up
In praise of "amateurs."
Jul 22, 2025 • Timothy Hoiland
[The Bookshelf #103] War: A Triptych
What more can be said?
Jun 24, 2025 • Timothy Hoiland
[The Bookshelf #102] Makers by Nature
It has to be costly to mean something.
Jun 12, 2025 • Timothy Hoiland
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