Micah Redding: Faith in the Future of Humanity

At the beginning of last year, I inadvertently found myself listening to an interview with self-help guru Tony Robbins.

In the movie Elysium, some people live in a paradise city in the sky, while…(can you guess the next part?)

In the ancient world, leprosy was incredibly unclean—if you had it, you were not simply unhealthy, you were cast out of society.

Back in March, I had the privilege of speaking at a TEDx event in the Cayman Islands.

We often encounter new things in very different ways.

I have often thought about the way we define ‘death’.

This is part of a series on a Minimum Viable Theology.

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.

For quite a while now, I’ve been suffering through something I might call abstraction angst.

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.

When I was 12, I began to wonder whether I was becoming an atheist.

A few months ago, I gave a talk entitled “The Infinite Resurrection” at the annual conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association.

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.

The other day I posted a hypothesis I was working on, and stirred up some wide-ranging discussion on Twitter.

Curiously, Genesis attributes the downfall of humanity to something identified only as The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

The biblical story is rich and complex—and full of metaphor, symbolism, and beauty.

There’s a verse in Romans that says something like this: “All things work together for good”.

“Never again will there be… an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not live out his years; the one who dies at a hundred will be thought a mere child” (Isaiah 65:20, NIV) In Isaiah 65, the great prophet of the Jewish scriptures looks f…

Last week, I lost my grandfather.

If you’ve spent any time in the tech world, you’re probably familiar with the term “Minimum Viable Product”.

My first article for The Huffington Post went up this week: The Faith of the Martian I have a bad habit of starting essays about movies, and not finishing them until months later — and that’s the case here.

Here is a great blog post, full of wit and wisdom, text and texture, scents and sensibility.

If you’ve ever thought deeply about life, or perhaps experienced something that set you back, and disrupted everything you thought you knew — you might have ended up floating in despair.

Recently my friend Lincoln Cannon released the third version of his groundbreaking New God Argument.

Right now, my mind is a flurry of thoughts, ideas, and questions.

In Acts 17, the apostle Paul does something remarkable.

Many of you know that I’ve spent the last couple of years trying to support and grow the Christian Transhumanist Association, an organization devoted to creating a better relationship between religion and technology.

In his book, The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch argues that there are moments when something switches from being of only limited and local use, to having infinite reach.

I’m Micah Redding, a software developer, writer, and the co-founder and executive director of the Christian Transhumanist Association.

It’s very common to hear people re-iterate the fact that we are human.

What does Christianity have to say about radical life extension?

Micah Redding is a software developer, the co-founder and executive director of the Christian Transhumanist Association, and a writer on the subject of human values and technology.

Some of you may know that I was raised in the Churches of Christ, a small religious group that emerged from the American Restoration Movement of the early 1800s.

It seems to me that there are three main ways you can look at the world.

Being Human Being Human Embodiment Iron Man and the Modern Identity Crisis Christianity, Empire & History The Poison of Empires Why are humans evil?

When I was a kid, I discovered humanism and was thrilled.

I’ve written before about my love for Iron Man 3.

A few days ago, I published an essay attempting to explain and define transhumanism.

In the past year, a strange new idea called “transhumanism” has started to show up in documentaries, tv series, and blockbuster movies.

For some reason, I’ve always associated space exploration with Christmas.

Micah Redding is a software developer and writer on the subject of human values and technology.

Recently, I became aware that the Fourth Avenue Church of Christ hired a female preaching intern.

For me, there is a deep philosophical conflict that runs underneath everything I do and think.

It’s about time I have a recommended reading list.

What is Transhumanism?

Transhumanism is the ethical use of technology to extend human ability, and to improve the human condition.

Over the past several years, I've written a lot of stuff.

The hardest thing to believe in the New Testament isn’t that a guy rose from the dead.

I’m a Christian.