Matt Holt is the creator of the wildly successful Caddy web server. He's also a member of the restored Church of Jesus Christ, AKA the Mormon Church. . I am not. Can we both be right? We had a lovely discussion about that, and what anchors his faith. We also spent time discussing the simulation argument, the implications of that worldview, and where, in his opinion, that argument falls short.

Kelvin Beachum is no ordinary athlete. While it is common for athletes to break into tech investing, Kelvin goes where few dare to go: he invests in Open Source tech infrastructure -- and even attended KubeCon.

Kelvin is a Christian from birth, and puts God in the center of everything he does.

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My guest today is John Larsen, a software developer from Norway, who enjoys PHP, and doesn’t seem to like Java very much. He was raised into a fringe Christian Church with 8 siblings, and after seeing that Church dissolve, got into his own path to test his faith, landing where he is today.

At some point he has read 200 books in a year, with more than 40 in a month. We talked about the Church Fathers, the Didache, and had a very intellectually satisfying discussion about what constitutes belief.

Josh Cirre comes from a creative background, but got into coding from a desire to help his customers. Now he works for Laravel as a Support Engineer and DevRel.

We talked about beauty, morality and logic, and how he views them as pointing to God.

We talked about a main objection to all of that, which is the existence of the Raccoon, and played a nice thought exercise that illuminated the role faith plays in his life.

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My Guest today is Adon Irani. We had a great conversation as his upbringing in a mixed home with a Zoroastrian father and a Baptist mother, how at age
11 he dedicated his life to Christ but completely forgot about it, and the important role that faith plays in his life.

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Join me today to talk about Java & Jesus with Mary Grygleski. She is the president of the Chicago Java Users Group, a Developer Advocate, and the AI Practice Lead at Callibriti.

We discussed her upbringing as a Catholic in Hong Kong, the harsh environment where her family came from, and how she was able to transform her life through 20 years of Eucharist Adoration.

My guest today is Mina Abadir. Mina is the CTO of Flightcontrol, and a member of the Coptic Church. In this episode we talked about growing up in Egypt as part of a minority religion, and how he had his religion inscribed in his national ID. We also discussed how the Coptic Church differs from others, and how his faith helped him in his career.

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In today's episode, I sat down for a chat with Eric Anderson. A PM from Google turned a successful Venture Capitalist at Scale, where he invested in companies like Datastax, Permit.io, and Honeycomb.io.

Eric grew up as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We discussed the community-building implications of growing up as a member of a church community, as well as the rational basis upon which his faith rests.