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      Making Muffins and Troops for Spiritual Warfare: The Godly Women of Instagram
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      As We Survey the Damage of Yesterday’s Violence, What Will Christian Nationalist Politics Look Like in 2021? New Report Offers Clues
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      Pulitzer-Prize Winning Historian’s Latest Reveals the Problem with Today’s ‘Religious Freedom’
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Vlad Chituc

Vlad Chituc is a research associate and freelance writer in Durham, North Carolina. He graduated with a B.S. in psychology from Yale University, where he studied philosophy and non-fiction writing.

Archive, New Books, The CubitAugust 3, 2016

What Penis Theft Tells Us About Belief, Culture, and Our Brains

By Vlad Chituc

An early scene in Frank Bures’s The Geography of Madness describes the author wandering through…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Remapping American ChristianitiesMarch 4, 2016

What’s Wrong With Atheist Lent?

By Vlad Chituc

A few years ago, I gave up eggs and dairy for Lent. This wouldn’t have…

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New Books, Science, The CubitJanuary 15, 2016

How Not To Defend Atheism

By Vlad Chituc

David Silverman, the president of American Atheists and author of the new atheist polemic Fighting God,…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Culture, Science, The CubitAugust 11, 2015

The Moral Bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Asceticism

By Vlad Chituc

In The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, the Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo offers…

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Archive, It's Your Fault, Stories, The CubitJuly 1, 2015

You’re Worse When You’re Hiding The Cocaine: A Moral Psychologist on Character and Blame

By Vlad Chituc

This interview is the third installment of It’s Your Fault, a Cubit series about blame…

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