Posts from Micah Redding

H+ Magazine: Christianity & Transhumanism

by Micah Redding

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H+ Magazine: Humanity+ vs Individualism+

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H+ Magazine: Towards a Relational Transhumanism

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Christian Transhumanists involved in support for Orphan Technology & Education Project

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Christian Post: Why Christians should embrace Transhumanism

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Motherboard: Why I became a Christian Transhumanist

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Christianity Today: Can Anti-Aging Treatments Offer Abundant Life?

by Micah Redding

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2019 CTA Board Member Elections

by Micah Redding

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Baptist News Asks: Can Transhumanism Enrich Christian Theology?

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Christ & Pop Culture: Can Transhumanism Lead Us Back to Orthodoxy?

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CTA Board Announcement & Appreciation

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Campaign Update

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Inverse: When Cyborgs and Christians Compromise

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CTA announces newest board member, Timothy Langer

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Call for Presentations: Christian Transhumanist Conference 2018

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Campaign Conclusion

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Motherboard: The Jesuit Priest Who Helped Create Modern Transhumanism

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CTA Announces Officer Appointments

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The Christian Transhumanist Affirmation

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CTA affiliates with Humanity+

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Embrace & the Christian Transhumanist Association

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Announcing the Academic Advisory Council

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Slate: Transhumanism is Complicating the Relationship between Faith & Science

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N+1 Magazine: Meghan O'Gieblyn loses her faith, discovers Christian Transhumanism

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Electing the Next Board of the CTA

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BBC — Immortality, The Why Factor

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SAVE THE DATE! Christian Transhumanist Conference 2018

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2018 Board Election Results

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J. Jeanine Thweatt to speak at Christian Transhumanist Conference 2018

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Dr. Scott Hawley to speak at Christian Transhumanist Conference 2018

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Derek Webb to perform at Christian Transhumanist Conference 2018

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Ted Peters to speak at Christian Transhumanist Conference 2018

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Emily Sue Laird to present on Art & Transhumanism—at Christian Transhumanist Conference 2018

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Mike Morrell to present at Christian Transhumanist Conference 2018

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(DRAFT) Statement on Radical Life Extension

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Announcement! National Geographic to sponsor Christian Transhumanist Conference 2018

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The Resurrection is Participatory

by Micah Redding

March 28, 2019

In my previous essay, The Resurrection is Technological, I explored Paul’s argument in 1 Corinthians 15, that the resurrection is about God’s intention for humanity to reign over the cosmos. According to Paul, God’s plan was for humans to rule th...

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The Kingdom of God has a biotechnological research agenda

by Micah Redding

March 13, 2019

The Kingdom of God has a biotechnological research agenda. We must cultivate all life, starting from the bottom up. We must learn how life works, how evolution unfolds, how ecosystems function—and we must learn to bless and uplift those processes...

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Miracles vs Magic

by Micah Redding

December 04, 2018

In 1600, during Giordano Bruno’s heresy trial, the inquisitors asked a question: Did he believe Jesus’ miracles were performed by magic? It’s hard for us to understand the significance of this question. In our post-Enlightenment world, this seems...

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Dealing with Death

by Micah Redding

May 30, 2018

On Tuesday, April 24th, I was interviewed on BBC Radio about technology, the pursuit of immortality, and the meaning of death. In the middle of that night, we were awakened by a call from an out-of-state hospital, telling us that my father-in-law...

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Be Thou My Vision, the Royal Wedding & Theosis

by Micah Redding

May 20, 2018

At the Royal Wedding yesterday, there was a brief moment when everyone in attendance, including the royal couple, sang together. What they were singing was Be Thou My Vision, one of the most beautiful hymns ever written. The hymn has origins deep ...

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The Tower of Babel

by Micah Redding

May 11, 2018

Perhaps no biblical story has captivated people’s imaginations like the Tower of Babel. In this story, a group of people get together to build a tower tall enough to reach heaven—from which they intend to launch an all-out war on God himself. God ...

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Environmentalism Mandates Transhumanism

by Micah Redding

April 22, 2018

In one billion years, life on Earth will be gone. Five billion years from now, the Sun will expand to encompass the Earth. But long before that happens, the rising temperatures of the Sun will boil the oceans, and make the planet uninhabitable. ...

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Mary, Mother of God, Catholic Transhumanist Wonder Woman

by Micah Redding

March 08, 2018

The more I am exposed to the Catholic aesthetic, the more I understand that for the ancient church, Mary was sort of like Wonder Woman, working against the power of Kings and Empires to smuggle the divine into the world. She strides across the an...

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Black Panther is the Transhumanist Future We Need

by Micah Redding

February 19, 2018

I’ve just returned from seeing Black Panther, and not only is it a great superhero movie, it is one of the most tech-positive movies I’ve seen in a long time. Its story-telling offers to reorient the entire superhero genre around deep questions of...

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Francis Bacon, Christian Transhumanist

by Micah Redding

February 16, 2018

In the 1600s, Francis Bacon, creator of the Scientific Method, was advocating Christian Transhumanism. It’s common for people wrestling with the tension between science and religion to point out that many great scientific pioneers, such as Bacon,...

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Feedback Loops

by Micah Redding

February 13, 2018

Recently, I’ve realized that feedback loops have been one of the most important things in my life—and are perhaps one of the most important things in the world. Most of us are aware of negative feedback loops. Feedback from a set of speakers and ...

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Minimum Viable Theology: Superorganisms

by Micah Redding

February 08, 2018

This is part of a series on a Minimum Viable Theology. The idea is to see if we can construct a minimal theological starter kit, using only reasonable assumptions. The first entry is about why good wins. You should start there. One of the most co...

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5 Theses for the Next Reformation

by Micah Redding

November 01, 2017

500 years ago TODAY, Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to the door of a German church, kick-starting the Protestant Reformation, and changing the course of history. 500 years later, the religious world is once again in turmoil, grappling with new qu...

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Christian Transhumanism is the Next Reformation

by Micah Redding

October 18, 2017

Published at the Huffington Post Five hundred years ago, Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to the door of a German church, kicking off one of the most significant movements in Christian history: the Protestant Reformation. The movement was less def...

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The Resurrection is Technological

by Micah Redding

September 28, 2017

In 1 Corinthians 15, Paul lays out an argument that many believe is at the heart of the Christian faith—an argument for the ultimate resurrection of all people, and the eradication of death itself. Paul’s explanation of this belief is often overl...

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Two Kinds of Power: Why Fascists Can't Make Art

by Micah Redding

September 06, 2017

I believe that there are two kinds of power in the universe. The first one is control—the ability to constrain action. The second one is freedom—the ability to act. These two kinds of power are in deep conflict, locked together in an inverse rela...

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How does Salvation Work?

by Micah Redding

August 31, 2017

Here’s how salvation works in Christianity. In Christianity, love is what saves. When Jesus is asked how to inherit eternal life, the answer is the the greatest commands: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and ...

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The Beginner's Paradox and the Beatitudes: We Must Fall in Order to Rise

by Micah Redding

August 18, 2017

Ira Glass, in an interview on creativity, described the thing that no one ever tells beginners. It’s simply this: When you start pursuing something new, it’s often because you fell in love with something old. Maybe you decided to learn music beca...

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The Purpose of Scripture & Doctrine

by Micah Redding

August 15, 2017

I spend a lot of time thinking and talking about scripture and doctrine. And yet, as I’ve expressed in many different ways, I believe that love is the answer—the truly significant factor. So why not just let the scripture & doctrine stuff...

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Moana and Reading Scripture

by Micah Redding

June 22, 2017

I love the movie Moana. And, particularly, I love this song—both because it’s a great song, and because it perfectly encapsulates a deep truth about reading scripture, or any kind of story. (Listen to it!) On the surface, the meaning of the so...

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Crisis

by Micah Redding

June 12, 2017

Today marks a year since the Orlando nightclub shooting. On June 12, 2016, a single gunman walked into a Florida nightclub and killed 49 people, wounding 58 others. A few days later, I wrote down some thoughts about what was happening. This is the...

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The Serpent’s Lie

by Micah Redding

April 28, 2017

I’ve heard it over and over again, when people are considering some new capabilities or technological power: “This is just a repeat of the Serpent’s lie, You shall be like God!” The reference is to Genesis, where the Serpent tempts Eve by pr...

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How to Read Scripture

by Micah Redding

March 17, 2017

Reading scripture is meant to be hard. I don’t mean that it has to be tedious or boring or anger-inducing or something like that. I mean that the meaning is not just floating on the surface, waiting to be scooped off like so much pond scum. No, th...

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Wireheading, Faith Healing, and Why the Placebo Effect is the Most Important Thing in the World

by Micah Redding

March 01, 2017

If you could flip a switch and experience more pleasure than you have ever felt in your entire life—would you do it? What if that switch also made you feel incredibly happy and joyful? What if it made you feel contented and successful and accompl...

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How to handle God’s audacious vision for humanity

by Micah Redding

February 21, 2017

I’ve recently been rediscovering how truly audacious the biblical vision for humanity is. According to even a cursory reading of the scriptures, humanity is made in the image of God, given charge of the entire world, and called to participate with...

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Why the Lego Batman Movie might Save Civilization

by Micah Redding

February 13, 2017

The other day I saw The Lego Batman Movie, a great addition to both the Batman movie franchise, and the Lego movie franchise. It had action, adventure, drama, romance—and more cameos from familiar good guys, bad guys, and ambiguous guys than you c...

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What would you have done?

by Micah Redding

February 07, 2017

I’ve spent my entire life wondering what I would do at certain junctures in history. Would I have followed Jesus—or stood with the Pharisees? Would I have worked against slavery—or argued that it was a necessary evil? Would I have opposed the Nazi...

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Why Christians need a Minimum Viable Theology

by Micah Redding

February 01, 2017

I am a Christian, and part of what that means is that I am an heir of an incredibly dense and comprehensive cultural tradition. I would call it a maximal cultural tradition, as it has produced art, music, literature, language, buildings, societies...

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What is Happening in the World?

by Micah Redding

February 01, 2017

Here is what I believe is happening in the world. Accelerating technological change has unleashed an era of unprecedented prosperity, freedom, and opportunity. The necessity of extreme poverty is vanishing in the rear view mirror, the incidence o...

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How to Become Immortal

by Micah Redding

January 20, 2017

In the last few years, a number of different organizations have launched projects to end aging and radically extend human longevity. Google’s Calico Labs is perhaps the most well-known effort, followed by Aubrey De Grey’s SENS foundation—but many ...

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Christianity is Love

by Micah Redding

January 15, 2017

Christianity is the assertion that love is the most powerful force in the universe. Of course, when we talk about love, all kinds of ideas come to mind, from romance to hippies to powerful feelings about ice cream. (And by the way, if you don’t h...

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Partnership with God

by Micah Redding

January 03, 2017

This Fall I taught a Bible class at my local church, along with Kyle Creamer, Nate Underwood, Emily Stutzman Jones (Lipscomb’s Director of Sustainability), Rob Touchstone (founder of the Well Coffeehouse), Tim Catchim (creator of OneLife Ministrie...

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How Self-Help Really Works

by Micah Redding

December 15, 2016

At the beginning of last year, I inadvertently found myself listening to an interview with self-help guru Tony Robbins. That interview made me curious, and pretty soon I had listened to several interviews, a 20-hour full-length audiobook, and a co...

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The Revolutionary Story

by Micah Redding

December 12, 2016

In the movie Elysium, some people live in a paradise city in the sky, while…(can you guess the next part?)…some people live in a hell on earth. I bet you could have guessed the second part even if I hadn’t told you. Why? Because you know this sto...

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Unclean Christianity

by Micah Redding

December 05, 2016

In the ancient world, leprosy was incredibly unclean—if you had it, you were not simply unhealthy, you were cast out of society. For you to touch anyone was to risk contaminating them. You had to live on the outskirts of town, shouting “unclean! u...

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My TEDx talk: We All Live in the Developing World

by Micah Redding

August 25, 2016

Back in March, I had the privilege of speaking at a TEDx event in the Cayman Islands. My topic? We all live in the developing world. The idea is simple. When we say “the developed world”, it suggests that our society is already finished—that ...

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Terror and Awe, Faith and Freedom

by Micah Redding

July 21, 2016

We often encounter new things in very different ways. Sometimes, new things are terrifying—even demonic. Sometimes, new things are freedom. Talking to Emily the other day, I was struck by how quickly we can switch between these responses. I remem...

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All Are Alive

by Micah Redding

July 14, 2016

I have often thought about the way we define ‘death’. When is someone actually dead? At one point in time, we defined death as the point when someone’s heart stopped beating. Now, we define death as the cessation of brain activity. But even “...

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Minimum Viable Theology: We Are Not Alone

by Micah Redding

July 12, 2016

This is part of a series on a Minimum Viable Theology. The idea is to see if we can construct a minimal theological starter kit, using only reasonable assumptions. The first entry is about why good wins. You should start there. The Theistic Premi...

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The Omega Point Theory

by Micah Redding

July 03, 2016

One of the reasons that science has been widely regarded as an atheistic enterprise over the years, is that for quite a while now, it has preached a future of relentless annihilation. Ever since the laws of thermodynamics were formulated, the out...

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The Creative Process of God

by Micah Redding

June 22, 2016

For quite a while now, I’ve been suffering through something I might call abstraction angst. It’s hard to describe to those who haven’t experienced it, but you might get a little of the flavor if you imagine working at a bank, handling thousands a...

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Women in the Church

by Micah Redding

June 20, 2016

If you, like me, grew up in a “Bible-believing church”, one thing that might have been discussed is the question of what role women could play in church services. You might have been told, for example, that the Bible clearly teaches women to be si...

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I Was a Teenage Existentialist

by Micah Redding

June 16, 2016

When I was 12, I began to wonder whether I was becoming an atheist. I couldn’t tell, of course, because while I knew I was exploring things that had turned other people into atheists, I didn’t know whether they inevitably led people into atheism, ...

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The Infinite Resurrection

by Micah Redding

June 14, 2016

A few months ago, I gave a talk entitled “The Infinite Resurrection” at the annual conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association. The MTA are always great hosts, and I enjoyed the opportunity to meet and talk with many of the other speakers. ...

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The Dark Side of Knowledge

by Micah Redding

May 09, 2016

The other day, I explored the story of Genesis, and its perplexing account of the corruption of mankind through the knowledge of good and evil. I tried to unpack some of the overlooked dynamics of the story, to get at what it is telling us about h...

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The Three Jobs in Our Future

by Micah Redding

April 04, 2016

The other day I posted a hypothesis I was working on, and stirred up some wide-ranging discussion on Twitter. After a while, this kind of thing becomes difficult to squeeze into 140-character chunks, so I thought I would unpack my thinking a bit m...

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