Monthly Archives: January 2012

Gradle, Lift, and Google App Engine

I’m getting back into the game a little bit, and I decided to take a look at Lift for web development. After an initially promising experience, I became totally unhappy with Eclipse (it began forgetting I had Google App Engine libraries on the classpath after every clean). So I moved back to the command line. [...]

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Back Again to There: A Nontheistic Statement of Faithiness

[Editor's Note: This is a follow-up to There and Back Again. If you haven't read that post, start there (including the comments) and then come back.] I finally figured out what was bothering me. While driving to the Science Online 2012 open mic night and listening to Jon Watts’ Lifted Up, I suddenly had an [...]

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There and Back Again: A Journey Into and Out of Faith

For the last few years, I have been a seminary student. Although hardly “evangelical”, I entered seminary with a strong faith in a benevolent God that I attached to Christianity. At the end of last semester, however, that all collapsed, and I am left as a kind of weak atheist. The post mortem of my faith is a complicated narrative: there is no simple cause of death.

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My Introduction to ScienceOnline (#scio12)

This upcoming weekend, I will be attending ScienceOnline 2012. For years, I’d heard whisperings about the science conference that Duke’s own “Mister Sugar” helped organize, but my interest was never quite piqued enough to attend. This year, I heard AV Flox and Jason Goldman were coming, and that was enough to push me overboard. Since [...]

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