Karl Giberson and Randall J. Stephens

Karl Giberson, a scholar of science & religion, is the former President of the BioLogos Foundation, founded by Francis Collins. He has also written or co-authored several books, including The Anointed: Evangelical Truth in a Secular Age (with Randall Stephens: Harvard, 2011). Randall J. Stephens is a Reader in History and American Studies at Northumbria University. He is the author of The Fire Spreads: Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South (Harvard University Press, 2008; 2010). He's currently working on a book titled The Devil's Music: Christianity and Rock since the 1950s (under contract, Harvard University Press). In 2012 he was a Fulbright Roving Scholar in Norway. He has written for the Atlantic, the New York Times, Salon, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.

(A)theologies, Election 2012, Politics/LawAugust 8, 2012

Conservative Christianity and Its Discontents

By Karl Giberson and Randall J. Stephens

How did Rick Santorum roll over Mitt Romney in all those primary states? Where did the energy come from? While pundits still insist that he won’t topple the moneyed Mitt—whose campaign still generates about as much excitement as the winter sport of curling—Santorum is holding onto the spotlight long enough to put religious populism front and center.