There is a spiritual battle going on here. The proper resolution may BE to shake dust off feet, like Lopez did here, and go on one’s way. Even the compassionate Christ said not to throw pearls before pigs. God doesn’t manifest His best works where they aren’t welcomed.
As for the situation of being in the middle, beware. Sometimes it really is a matter of Error A vs. Error C and so the only sane position is Truth B, which will look to a worldly perspective like the “middle.”
Shaking the dust off ones feet. In that context I can understand the Amish.
If we want to concede that the battle for academia is lost and that they have successfully purged all conservative thought from the institutions of higher learning.
That was Solomon.