“Lost in the Middle” Chapter Study Guides

Introduction Though we sometimes feel lost, we know that we are not alone. We are glad you have decided to read and wrestle with Lost

Get Started Chapter Summary Often we only ask our most important questions when we are alone: Am I right? Am I making this up? I

Get Started Chapter Summary Moderates aren’t cowards, but we do cherish community. For many of us this means that we have stifled our questions about

Get Started Chapter Summary As moderates we may feel as if we are cast in the role of cultural and religious moderators, constantly striving to

Get Started Chapter Summary Tolerance and moderation are usually among the first causalities of war. The cultural and religious wars are no different. As Liberals

Get Started Chapter Summary Many of us feel lost, it is true, but acknowledging our feelings of isolation is only a first step. How will

Get Started Chapter Summaries It is difficult to imagine, when watching political television shows with screaming pundits, that at bottom most of us want similar

Get Started Chapter Summaries In political discourse the rhetoric of “church and state” is so prevalent that we sometimes ignore other aspects of society and

Get Started Chapter Summaries Not all fights between Liberals and Conservatives are about how best to achieve an agreed upon end. There may be a

Get Started Chapter Summaries With all of the different denominations and styles of worship it is easy to forget that most of us need the

Get Started Chapter Summaries Understanding the threat posed by anomie as outlined in the previous chapter, enables us to face what may be the biggest

Get Started Chapter Summaries Human institutions are fragile. We desperately need them, so when they are not working we worry about tampering with traditional forms

Get Started Chapter Summaries Liberalism and Evangelicalism both have long traditions of development. When we concentrate on these movements only in their contemporary embodiments, we

Get Started Chapter Summaries This penultimate chapter introduces the topic of “The Great Evangelical Split” a historical period when Liberal Evangelicals and Conservative Evangelicals parted