The fact that Christ was crucified in the middle is highly symbolic. To hold the center is to suffer for the common good.
There will always be radical and diabolical forces attempting to pull us apart. Who among us will suffer the tension of holding the middle?
To hold the center is to live the incarnation, with all its limitations and it’s inevitable pascal mystery.
To hold the center is to follow the person of Jesus, including a commitment to both his mystical body and His flawed institutional church.
To hold the center is to become Christ in the world through our own kenosis, our own act of self-emptying love for humanity.
To hold the center is to resist escaping into ideology and conspiracy, and to ground ourselves in the Word made flesh, and accept our own humanity.