Carlee Jane’s Reviews > If Truth Were a Child: Essays > Status Update

Ohhh man, saved the best for last—“The Grace of Nothingness” is like a highlight reel of my favorite Handley teachings 👌🏻

The Menardian paradox was kind of interesting, echoing the theme of the previous essay with new insight, but also felt like assigned reading from a humanities course—especially since I read it while tired haha 🥱

The essay on reading scripture touched on an important tension but I feel like the helpful way forward was too shrouded in academese for me to grasp.

It’s thoughtful reframing of politics like this that helps me shake off disillusionment and feel motivated to engage.

One of the most thoughtful, articulate, holistic mediations on what it means to sustain church leaders I’ve read to-date. I’d like to reread it before returning this book, if I can 🤞🏻

“I prefer what scholars have called a hermeneutics of love, or of recovery, a way of interpreting that uses criticism to complete or fulfill or restore... In other words, the most appropriate response to limited human instruments through whom inspiration comes is not deconstructive criticism or condemnation but the creativity to help build on the portion of inspiration offered.” (pg. 49-50)