Donna Freitas, author of the new guide book Killing the Imposter God: Philip Pullman’s Spiritual Imagination in His Dark Materials, has written an article in the Boston Globe on the Catholic League and other evangelical group’s campaign against The Golden Compass. In its defense, she says, “to reduce Pullman to these few juicy sound bites is to ignore the whole of a complex, exuberantly curious intellectual who has infused his writing with a complex, crisply rendered theology.” Freitas sees the true, divine God in Dust, which permeates the story. Read more.

Another article by Freitas appears in Newsweek, once again defending the “reluctant theologian.” “Its telos or “end purpose,” highlights a vision of the Christian God and God’s relationship to this world – one that has long lingered in the rhetoric of Christian feminist and liberation theologians… their work has languished in the dark corners of academe and on the wrong side of Christian orthodoxy.” Read more.