Lost in the Middle

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 we react? Will we lash…

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 things. We fight among ourselves…

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 the ways in which religion…

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 deeper source of conflict. This…

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 same basic things from our…

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 challenge to moderate congregations: core…

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 and losing them entirely. In…

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 miss much that is of…

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 ways. Anyone familiar with the…

Get Started Chapter Summaries Liberal Evangelicalism is not a contradiction in terms. The fact that it might appear so at first is due to the peculiar unfolding of Evangelical history…