SPCK Middling: What Jesus Said About Perspective, Being Between Things and Not Y by Emma Ineson | Paperback

Explore the profound spiritual significance of inhabiting the middle ground with Middling by Emma Ineson. Drawing on theological depth and personal experience as a bishop, this book challenges the common perception of the middle as mediocre, reframing it as a vital, intentional space for Christian living, faith, and compassion.

• Reframes “middling” as an active verb and a calling, not a mediocre state.
• Reveals the gift of holding nuanced views and embodying compassion over certainty.
• Explores waiting as a place of creativity suspended between what has been left behind and what is yet to be discovered.
• Offers a vision for Christ-like inhabitation of the “broken middle”—a space for listening, truth-telling, and reconciliation in a world of extremes.
• Reimagines leadership away from the top-down model toward servant-hearted, centre-ground guidance, drawing on the author's experience as a bishop.
• Helps readers embrace midlife as a fertile, liminal space for growth.

As a bishop, Emma Ineson uses Christ as the ultimate 'middle' figure, holding all things together, to illustrate that standing in the middle is a priestly vocation and a fruitful, joyful place to dwell intentionally.

• Author: Emma Ineson
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: New
• Language: English
• Publication Date: May 21, 2026
• Print Length: 224 pages
• ISBN-10: 0281091358
• ISBN-13: 978-0281091355
• Dimensions: 129 x 198mm (Approx.)
• Weight: 234 g
• EAN: 9780281091355
• Release Date: 21 May 2026

Discover how to resist tribalism, make space for nuance, and lead with integrity from the center ground. Middling provides the theological depth and practical encouragement needed to see the middle not as second-best, but as where God does deep work.