Coffee with Micah Redding

Micah Redding is the Executive Director of the Christian
Transhumanist Association and producer of The Christian
Transhumanist Podcast. Micah is from many places including Tulsa,
Oklahoma. Today he lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his spouse.
What's Christian Transhumanist, you ask? Micah is the right
Christian to ask.


(Full show notes with pictures and links
at http://coffeepotfellowship.com/micahredding)


On their public sites you will find the following explanation.


As Christian Transhumanists, we seek to use science &
technology to participate in God's redemptive purposes, to
cultivate life and renew creation.


1. We believe that God’s mission involves the transformation and
renewal of creation including humanity, and that we are called by
Christ to participate in that mission: working against illness,
hunger, oppression, injustice, and death.


2. We seek growth and progress along every dimension of our
humanity: spiritual, physical, emotional, mental—and at all
levels: individual, community, society, world.


3. We recognize science and technology as tangible expressions of
our God-given impulse to explore and discover and as a natural
outgrowth of being created in the image of God.


4. We are guided by Jesus’ greatest commands to “Love the Lord
your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength…and love
your neighbor as yourself.”


5. We believe that the intentional use of technology, coupled
with following Christ, will empower us to become more human
across the scope of what it means to be creatures in the image of
God.


In this way we are Christian Transhumanists.


By listening to the Christian Transhumanist Podcast you can
discover that Micah is a software engineer, the history of the
word transhumanist, and that "ultimately it's about creating a
world with more good and less bad in it" (Koen De Paul).
LINKS:

Sponsor: United Faith Leaders


The Christian Transhumanist Podcast


The Christian Transhumanist Association


The Christian Transhumanist Facebook Page