Micah Redding: Faith in the Future of Humanity

Life as we know it is full of incredible diversity and change. From single-cell to multi-cellular organisms, from asexual reproduction to sexual recombination, from bacteria to plants to fungi to ver...

For several years now, I've been hunting the origins of transhumanism. One of the significant mysteries in this story is the first time the word "transhumanism" shows up in English. Until recently,...

> “Paul, you are out of your mind! Your great learning is driving you mad!” So exclaimed the governor Festus on hearing Saint Paul speak. Until recently, this statement made sense to me. Studying t...

_(—This essay is a draft, undergoing feedback and revision.—)_ In 1802, William Paley famously set out the "Watchmaker Analogy", a teleological argument, or *argument from design* for the existence ...

In my previous essay, [The Resurrection is Technological][1], I explored Paul’s argument in 1 Corinthians 15, that the resurrection is about God’s intention for humanity to reign over the cosmos. Ac...

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 w...

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 ques...

On Tuesday, April 24th, I was [interviewed on BBC Radio](https://www.christiantranshumanism.org/blog/bbc-immortality-the-why-factor) about technology, the pursuit of immortality, and the meaning of de...

At the Royal Wedding yesterday, there was a brief moment when everyone in attendance, including the royal couple, sang together. They were singing a melody shared by [Be Thou My Vision][0], one of the...

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 inten...

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 t...

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 di...

I’ve just returned from seeing [Black Panther](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjDjIWPwcPU), and not only is it a great superhero movie, it is one of the most tech-positive movies I’ve seen in a long ...

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...

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 fee...

*This is part of a series on a [Minimum Viable Theology](http://micahredding.com/blog/series/minimum-viable-theology). The idea is to see if we can construct a minimal theological starter kit, using o...

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 ...

*[Published at the Huffington Post](https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/59e40d37e4b09e31db975a6c)* Five hundred years ago, Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to the door of a German church, kicking off ...

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. P...

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 de...

Here’s how salvation works in Christianity. In Christianity, love is what saves. When Jesus is asked [how to inherit eternal life](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+10:25-28&version=N...

Ira Glass, in an interview on creativity, described *[the thing that no one ever tells beginners](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2wLP0izeJE)*. It’s simply this: When you start pursuing something n...

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](http://micahredding.com/blog/christianit...

For CS Lewis, Adam and Eve were a vision of humanity as it could be, in its full power and beauty. They were man and woman unchained, gods and goddesses walking the Earth, intense and fierce, full of ...

I love the movie Moana. And, particularly, I love [this song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVzDrqOmYiY)—both because it’s a great song, and because it perfectly encapsulates a deep truth about read...

*Today marks a year since the [Orlando nightclub shooting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Orlando_nightclub_shooting). On June 12, 2016, a single gunman walked into a Florida nightclub and killed ...

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...

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...

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 mad...

I’ve recently been rediscovering how truly audacious [the biblical vision for humanity](http://micahredding.com/blog/partnership-with-god) is. According to even a cursory reading of the scriptures, hu...

The other day I saw [The Lego Batman Movie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZSQTVdF3QM), a great addition to both the Batman movie franchise, and the Lego movie franchise. It had action, adventure, d...

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 ...

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, ...

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 va...

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](https://www.calicolabs.com/) is perhaps th...

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 feeling...

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](https://www.lipscomb.edu/sustainability)), R...

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 interv...

In the movie [Elysium](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QILNSgou5BY), 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 yo...

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 li...

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 develop*ed* world”, it ...

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...

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 a...

*This is part of a series on a [Minimum Viable Theology](http://micahredding.com/blog/series/minimum-viable-theology). The idea is to see if we can construct a minimal theological starter kit, using o...

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 ...

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 yo...

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...

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 wh...

A few months ago, I gave a talk entitled “The Infinite Resurrection” at the annual conference of the [Mormon Transhumanist Association](http://transfigurism.org/). The MTA are always great hosts, and ...

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](http://micahredding.com/blog/the-tree-of-the-knowledge-...

The other day I posted a hypothesis I was working on, and stirred up some wide-ranging discussion on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/micahtredding/status/716391871321358336). After a while, this kind of...

Curiously, Genesis attributes the downfall of humanity to something identified only as *The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil*. This mysterious tree is the one thing in all of creation forbidden ...

The biblical story is rich and complex—and full of metaphor, symbolism, and beauty. But given its length and complexity, it’s easy to throw up our hands at the prospect of understanding it all. This ...

There’s a verse in Romans that says something like this: “All things work together for good”. I had a teacher who didn’t like that verse. He thought it was saying that all things are already good—we ...

“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) ...

Last week, I lost my grandfather. Two years ago, I lost my grandfather from the other side. This is what I wrote at the time. — My grandfather died in December. For me and my siblings, this was the...

If you’ve spent any time in the tech world, you’re probably familiar with the term “Minimum Viable Product”. The idea is that when you’re building something, it’s better to start with the most basic v...

My first article for The Huffington Post went up this week: [The Faith of the Martian](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/micah-redding/the-faith-of-the-martian_b_9128666.html) I have a bad habit of sta...

Here is a great blog post, full of wit and wisdom, text and texture, scents and sensibility. Nowhere you find it will know the reason you searched, and no one who finds you will know the reason they f...

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. In this sta...

Recently my friend Lincoln Cannon released the third version of his groundbreaking [New God Argument](http://new-god-argument.com/). This argument is a philosophical justification for trust in God, la...

Right now, my mind is a flurry of thoughts, ideas, and questions. This is typical for me, at this time of year, when there’s downtime, when everything is nominally starting over, when I’m reconnecting...

In [Acts 17](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+17:16-34), the apostle Paul does something remarkable. He walks onstage at Mars Hill in Athens, the center of the philosophical tradition...

Many of you know that I’ve spent the last couple of years trying to support and grow the [Christian Transhumanist Association](http://www.christiantranshumanism.org/), an organization devoted to creat...

In his book, [The Beginning of Infinity](http://amzn.to/1W6ETZN), 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. I grew up as a preacher’s kid, spent eight years as a rock musici...

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What does Christianity have to say about radical life extension? Cyborgs? Artificial Intelligence? I'm passionately interested in these questions. I grew up as a preacher's kid, and traveled the wor...

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. He grew up as a ...

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. At the time of the Restoration Moveme...

It seems to me that there are three main ways you can look at the world. **The first is _monism_**, and it holds that everything is one. God and the world and heaven and earth and you and me are all ...

Being Human Being Human Embodiment Iron Man and the Modern Identity Crisis ...

When I was a kid, I discovered humanism and was thrilled. Here, somebody had gone through Christianity, and packaged its most essential concepts for the secular world. [^1] I soon discovered that oth...

I’ve [written before](http://micahredding.com/blog/2013/06/07/iron-man-and-modern-identity-crisis) about my love for Iron Man 3. In it, Tony Stark faces the hard question of personal identity. Who is ...

A few days ago, I published an essay attempting to explain and define *[transhumanism](http://micahredding.com/blog/2015/02/27/what-transhumanism-and-why-should-christians-care)*. At root, I said, tra...

In the past year, a strange new idea called “transhumanism” has started to show up in documentaries, tv series, and blockbuster movies. It’s often coupled with stories of amazing new medical developme...

For some reason, I’ve always associated space exploration with Christmas. No, I don’t think it’s because of that movie *[Santa Claus Conquers the Martians](http://amzn.to/2kYAETD)*. I think it’s dee...

Micah Redding is a software developer and writer on the subject of human values and technology. He grew up as a preacher’s kid, spent eight years as a rock musician, and has traveled extensively, to p...

Recently, I became aware that the Fourth Avenue Church of Christ hired a female preaching intern. I did not become aware of this through any direct connection with the congregation, but through a seri...

For me, there is a deep philosophical conflict that runs underneath everything I do and think. It makes me constantly question and measure and analyze — holding everything I’m doing up to inspection, ...

It’s about time I have a recommended reading list. If you want to get inside my head (why would you want that??!!), this is what you need to read. ## Non-fiction: ### The Physics of Immortality (Fra...

[What is Transhumanism?](http://micahredding.com/blog/2014/09/20/what-transhumanism) [How does Christianity connect with Transhumanism?](http://micahredding.com/blog/2012/04/25/christianity-transhuma...

Transhumanism is the ethical use of technology to extend human ability, and to improve the human condition. Transhumanism holds that we should not be limited by the way things are, or by the way they...

Over the past several years, I've written a lot of stuff. And it's all over the place: I've covered all kinds of topics, taken many different viewpoints, and tried on several different writing styles....

The hardest thing to believe in the New Testament isn’t that a guy rose from the dead. For the disciples, the hardest thing to believe was that they were going to come to possess the Roman Empire, and...

I’m a Christian. That means that I think that a certain set of [memes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme) — memes which started in first-century Israel, and very quickly spread out into the rest of th...

I watched Atlas Shrugged last night. Not a great movie. Nevertheless, it was thought-provoking in several ways. One might be forgiven for thinking that this movie was about politics. The cameo appear...

Many people who use the word “orthodoxy” as a weapon, think of it as an insistence on picking the one correct answer out of many possible. I think this misses the point pretty badly. Orthodoxy isn’t t...

I hear a lot about how our society sells us on consumerist wants, how magazines convince us we look ugly and need to look better, how car commercials make us lust after cars we don’t need, how our who...

**I’m a conservative** in that I know the world is complex, and I know that simplistic and feel-good solutions don't often fix things. I look for the [mechanisms](http://micahredding.com/blog/2012/01/...

When I think of consumerism, I think of companies without values — or more precisely, companies without opinions. That is, they’re not doing anything wrong, but they’re also not fighting for anything ...

*You too can receive incoherent essays from the morning scrawlings of my sleep-addled mind!* For the past few weeks, I’ve been waking up every morning to write 500 words. I’ve heard from so many sour...

It’s very common to hear people re-iterate the fact that we are human. “I’m only human” “I’m finally getting in touch with my own humanity” “The inhuman treatment of prisoners…” But nailing down jus...

A few months ago I went to see the Lego Movie with my friends. It provoked a lot of thoughts. I started thinking about how we approach the raw materials of the world around us, how we think about cre...

Lately, a lot of people have been talking about embodiment. From theologians and philosophers, to environmentalists and activists, there is a lot of concern with how we think of ourselves, and our rel...

I think that there are three strains of religious and spiritual transhumanism. The first seeks to understand and commit more deeply to its own religious heritage, and in doing so, discovers a call to...

To speak tangentially, I think that suffering is an intrinsic part of being-hood. Any being worth...uh...being, will experience suffering. We can respond to that suffering in a myriad of ways, includi...

These are my thoughts in response to [this question](https://twitter.com/emmetcole/status/370608859716407296): > Would a dominant pantheistic or pagan cultural tradition have prepared the West better...

(in reply to: https://twitter.com/bobfronk/status/368813980594102272 ) Ok, here's my initial thought. Being set apart isn't about community, it's about identity. Being set apart forms identity, wh...

*This was written circa 1999, and circulated on some mailing lists and publishing sites at the time.* The New Testament says, "the law was a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ..." When Jesus came, th...

Two of the most significant articles I’ve read recently address the question of why millennials are leaving the church. First, there was this piece by Rachel Evans: [Why millennials are leaving the c...

Transhumanism is the ethical use of technology to extend human ability, and to improve the human condition. Transhumanism holds that we should not be limited by the way things are, or by the way they...

A year ago, I was traveling across the world. I had just moved out of my house, taken a leave of absence from my part-time job, and left without a lot of money or a good sense of whether I would be em...

There is a lot of negativity these days about the state of the world. There’s always been a lot of negativity, so I guess that’s not surprising. What is surprising is how this negativity persists desp...

Lately I've been reading about technology in the ancient world, and just how close Greece and Rome came to kicking off the industrial revolution 1500 years early. Why didn't it happen? Nobody knows...

On May 21, 2011, I was sitting in a steel-roofed building as a powerful storm pounded down outside. This is the day that Harold Camping had said the world would end. After decades of bible study, he...

I have always been drawn to things which are bitter-sweet. Well, at least since I was 15. I remember hearing “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” as a kid, and wanting to turn it off because it was so depressin...

I hope that one day humanity will assess its gifts, its skills, and its history, and come to the conclusion that our purpose in this world is to cultivate and create life. Certainly, this is what we ...

I think theistic transhumanism is important because eventually people are going to become aware of the simulation argument - and when that happens, people will either see themselves in an adversarial ...

I've toyed with the idea of abandoning the term "Christian" before. Here's the problem with that: in doing so, I would be abandoning the rich history and language surrounding that term. In the short t...

The Problem of Evil is the apparent contradiction between the idea that God is infinitely loving, and the fact that he created us in a world with such intense suffering. It’s a serious problem for Ch...

The Problem of Evil contrasts three ideas: 1. Evil, suffering, and pain exist. 2. We believe that God is all powerful. 3. We believe that God is completely benevolent. For our purposes, let’s define...

As Christmas has approached, I’ve been reminded that traditional Christmas songs have embodied some of the most hopeful messages for humanity ever written. This makes sense — their subject matter dra...

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I am a theist. For most people, that probably collapses into the fact that I'm a Christian. But they are separate things, and I embrace each of them for different reasons. I embrace Christianity b...

"Kingdoms of the wall" - a novel about meeting the gods at the top of a mountain "I am David" - a new movie that is based on a book I once read From earlier [reading list](http://micahredding.com/blo...

A few years ago I began to realize that the New Testament authors anticipated the second coming within their own lifetimes. This led me to a lot of study and research, and ultimately to the reluctant ...

This is the deal with violence. It works. Sort of. But the problem is, it only works on one level. It can stop a person from doing something you don't like, but it can't change a person's mind. It can...

It is so improbable that we will pass out of existence forever. Rather, the very structure of reality hints to us, suggests to us that we will continue, that existence stretches far beneath us, and th...

My Mormon friends say that religion is an expression of our aspiration. Our belief that God is love is indistinguishable from our desire to be love ourselves. Our belief that God is holy is indistingu...

On Thursday night, Emily and I were driving along a five-lane road when a truck in front of us suddenly squealed its tires, jerked hard to the left, hit some debris, and then sped off. My first though...

Life is a series of pains. We don’t get to choose a pain-free life, but over time, we do get to choose to live with more interesting pains, like the pain of problem-solving, or creation, or love. Thi...

I see technology not as a thing in itself, but something which emerges from humanity, like an anthill emerges from an ant colony. If you take the ants away from the anthill, they will build a new one....

It is "ok" for the government to institute the death penalty, just as it is "ok" for the government to go to war - - in the sense that a Christian should not violently oppose those things. However, ...

Romans 13 addresses how God uses the cycle of violence to limit itself. This is played out in the Old Testament over and over (Babylon punishing Israel, other nations punishing Babylon), and is foreto...

James L. Carroll - if I understand what you are saying, you are suggesting that since information is lost in the process of nesting worlds, the exterior worlds contain more information. (Agreed.) Fu...

The simulation argument conversation. Finite or Infinite? ...

When I come up with an idea, and think hard about it, and then discover that someone has already made it, I'm excited. It means my idea was a good one, it means we're one step closer to the things I w...

Jonathan G Cannon - that's exactly right. I think the term "simulation" is just a good starting point, not necessarily the best way to conceptualize what's going on. Similarly, thinking of God as "pos...

Experience would indicate this universe is not intended to be hackable in the sense specified here, and is instead intended to be understood and manipulated within the rules of its operation. That is,...

http://lifestreamblog.com/will-wright-plans-to-gamify-our-lifestream-data/ http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/07/mf_iconswright/all/ Some interesting talk about visualizing your past and personal his...

Lately, there has been a flurry of discussion about email, from the "email is broken" thread to the "we're solving the wrong problem" theme. Some people want to upgrade email clients to handle email a...

*From my [trip journal](http://micahredding.com/blog/series/around-world-40-days) - Monday, May 21, 2012 Aguas Calientes, Peru.* After a day of climbing around Machu Picchu, hiking to the Inca Br...

I'm back. I've been back in the USA for about a week now, and in that week, I've had to re-adjust to life in a country where walking in front of buses is *not* a good idea, where the primary and only...

*I'm in the middle of a 40-day, 16-stop, 14-country tour of the world.* This has become our process. Arrive at the airport. Make it through customs. Explain that no, we're not carrying any baggage ...

*I'm in the middle of a 40-day, 16 stop, 14 country tour of the world. These are my experiences.* So perhaps my pen will behave. We have just missed a flight to Singapore, and I'm guessing we will be...

In some ways, this trip is a vacation. In other ways, it's a self-imposed exile, in which we must slum around the world, often without food, showers, or the benefits of clean clothing. The terms of...

*I'm in the middle of a 40-day, 16 stop, 14 country tour of the world. The most annoying thing about this trip so far has been using currency.* Carrying cash does not make me feel powerful. Carrying ...

I'm in the middle of a 40-day, 16 stop, 14 country tour of the world. We're currently in Chilé. Here's our full itinerary: Lima (LIM) May 18, 2012 04:30 AM. Cuzco (CUZ) May 19, 2012 02:00 PM...

I'm in the middle of a 40-day, 14-country tour of the world. Our first two countries were Peru and Chilé. I do not speak Spanish. I like not speaking the language. I keep being told that I would enjo...

In the movie The Matrix, Morpheus prods Neo to think about his emotions over the course of his lifetime. Hadn't he always felt out-of-place? Hadn't he always felt that something was not quite right? ...

This is a response to Hank Pellissier’s essay on the [cruelty of God](http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/pellissier20120501). My friend Lincoln has already written a [response](http://lincoln.metacan...

Since our second official episode just went up, I thought it would be good to point out that I'm doing a podcast. This podcast is about the future, the Singularity, and what it's like to experience *l...

For several years now, I've argued that everything in the bible was completely fulfilled and finished almost two thousand years ago. I think I might have been wrong. My reason for the conclusion was...

In 1000 BC, in a world of slaves and warlords, where life was often *nasty, brutish, and short*, it would have been hard to imagine that humanity could ever be anything else. There was no evidence, n...

Wesley J. Smith has written a short piece entitled *[Christian Transhumanism is an Oxymoron](http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2012/04/21/christian-transhumanist-is-an-oxymoron/)*. Fo...

This past Saturday, Ryan Hogan, John Yates and I delivered a presentation and panel discussion on the future of accelerating change at Nashville Podcamp. The session went well, and we had a lot of gre...

For a while, I've been trying to puzzle out the chronology of 1 Corinthians 15:20-28, and finding it incredibly difficult. But here's a little bit of what I've noticed. Hebrews 2:5-9 talks about ever...

It is very common to hear Christians define "sin" as "missing the mark". Sin then becomes a word for any kind of imperfection or flaw, for basic human fallibility itself. And it becomes very easy to ...

The universe appears to have been fine-tuned for life. It's astonishing, really. The physical constants (like the strength of gravity or the number of spatial dimensions) seem to have really improba...

Once I heard someone declare that God was like an umbrella, always standing between you and all the trouble raining down. My first thought was, *then he's a pretty crappy umbrella*. What's the use o...

Late last year, I [explained](http://micahredding.com/blog/2011/09/21/why-i-joined-mormon-trashumanist-association) why I (a non-Mormon) had joined the Mormon Transhumanist Association. I felt like re...

*This is the fourth in a series of essays on [Christianity as Anthropology](http://micahredding.com/blog/series/christianity-anthropology). Read the previous entries [here](http://micahredding.com/blo...

Walter Wink is primarily significant to me for his work in defining the concept of *The Powers* and tying that together with Christus Victor atonement theory. Briefly put, his idea is that the scriptu...

I believe there are aliens among us. That is, I believe that there are non-human creatures deeply involved in our own existence. Of course, you believe in them too. You may call them things like *sch...

For the past two weeks, I've been exploring the [nature and rise of human evil](http://micahredding.com/blog/series/christianity-anthropology). We're about to move into the New Testament, but before w...

When you flip a coin, it's customary to ask the other person, "heads or tails?" That choice is meaningless. You picking "tails" doesn't change the probability of you getting what you want. It could ...

*This is the second post in a series on [Christianity as Anthropology](http://micahredding.com/blog/series/christianity-anthropology). In this, I'm sketching out in quick narrative form a synthesis of...

Most of my currently forming understanding of Christianity sees it as a confrontation with the political, systemic, and psychological forces that shaped humanity from the beginning. My understanding i...

Recently Google has changed its privacy policy, causing a lot of people to feel uneasy about the amount of search history that Google has on them. Lifehacker and the EFF have put together guides for ...

Some comments on a [recent post](http://micahredding.com/blog/2012/02/29/morality-rational-and-how-we-shape-meaning-void) brought up the question of why humans are moral. Is it because there is a God,...

Let's talk about Adam and Eve and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Many people believe this story is about the first humans *becoming* mortal. God had warned Adam and Eve that in taking th...

I grew up arguing about the bible. Son of a preacher-man, raised in one of the most biblically-obsessed religious groups in America, I like to think that I know how to argue it well. But the toughes...

Theistic Reality is a term I coined (for myself, anyway) to refer to the set of expectations we would have about a reality in which God exists. Since it is nearly impossible to define what "God" means...

I was recently talking to someone about how uncertain everything is. There are different opinions on everything - from what's *really* happening in politics to the healthiest diet to follow. With so m...

Panentheism is the understanding of God as intimately connected to, and yet beyond, the universe we experience. This is distinct from pantheism, which sees the universe as equivalent to God. Panenthe...

The understanding of Christianity and the scriptures as speaking directly to experienced realities, rather than trying to map metaphysical existence. This view was inspired [here](http://micahredding...

Sorry things are a little slow lately. I've been working on some big thoughts, trying to fit them together and make them dance. But in the meantime, let me share a few thoughts about good and evil. ...

Solipsism is the belief that you can never truly know if anyone else is *real*. This is a common endpoint for philosophy, the *reductio ad absurdum* at the end of long chains of reasoning. It's what ...

I'm writing this for my atheist friends who see no reason or justification for believing in God - not to convince them, but to give them a window into my own thought processes, and an alternative to m...

In [Insurrection](http://peterrollins.net/?page_id=3440), Peter Rollins critiques the *[Deus Ex Machina](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina)*. This is the god that, in ancient Greek plays, ...

[The Skulls](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0192614/) is a fictitious movie based on Yale's notorious secret *Skull and Bones* society. It follows the path of a new initiate through the process of gettin...

The idea that the scriptures should be understood as stories and conversations arising within particular circumstances in world history. As such, they should not be interpreted as if we were reading a...

I need wisdom. More than anything in my life, I need to be able to see my way forward, to evaluate the choices ahead of me. I've always been a consumer of knowledge, someone who couldn't leave well e...

Increasingly, I have come to believe that the world is best understood as a Vast Economy, an ecosystem encompassing all the small economies we know about and measure, utilizing our every choice, from ...

At the beginning of the 20th century, prominent religious leaders got together and formed a list of five fundamentals - the items of belief that they thought were non-negotiable elements of Christian ...

I write about life on the curve of accelerating change, christianity as the anti-religion, and my attempts at adventures and excursions in the new world. I currently run two emails lists, one for my...

[This video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IAhDGYlpqY) has been making the rounds, stirring up a lot of attention and commentary, and causing at least a few people to drop the f-word into some Chris...

Some things take practice. But when the practice is over, we must act. Religion, as it exists throughout the world and through history, is practice. It prepares the mind with deep thoughts, meditati...

Lately I've been reading [Peter Rollins](http://peterrollins.net/), and in doing so, have become very suspicious of anything that might provide a false sense of security. Like every being or creatur...

Some atheist friends of mine are [having a discussion](http://lucidlogic.blogspot.com/2012/01/homosexual-being-christians.html) about this verse in Leviticus: > If a man lies with a male as with a wo...

Read the setup [here](http://micahredding.com/blog/2012/01/01/new-years-resolve-change). These are my [changes for 2012]. --- Week 1: Drink no soda. *If anything, this experiment had a negative im...

This year, my only resolution is to change. I've made my share of resolutions, goals, and ambitions, and so my relationship with such things is firmly in the "it's complicated" category. I may talk ...

Software is swallowing the world. This is nothing new. From the moment human consciousness sprang into being, it has been trying to remake the world in its image. Consciousness is, after all, fundam...

In [Insurrection](http://peterrollins.net/?page_id=3440), Peter Rollins critiques the way in which various religious movements attempt to experience God. One approach is the one taken by [Chick Trac...

I've [just written](http://micahredding.com/blog/2011/12/19/imputed-righteousness-and-switching-tracks) how reading Paul's statements on guilt changed my whole way of thinking, and switched my mind to...

In my ongoing quest to remove everything *unreal* from my religious life, I've run head-on into the concept of imputed righteousness. If you're not familiar with the idea, it's the cornerstone of Cal...

One response I've often gotten to my beliefs is the assertion that without churches and institutions, Christianity would cease to be passed on to future generations, and cease to spread through societ...

It's very common to hear religious people talk about living in a "broken world". I may have even heard someone use that as an excuse a time or two. Certainly there are bad things in the world. People...

I'm currently reading [Peter Rollins'](http://peterrollins.net/) brilliant and incisive book "Insurrection". One of the primary ideas is that on the cross, Jesus lost everything *including God himself...

I think Christianity is hard. That's kind of a rough thing to say, and instantly brings up all kinds of objections. But it seems to be fairly clear in the gospels that Jesus doesn't expect people to...

I don't have much use for the term Orthodox. I think it means "within the bounds of historic Christianity", but those bounds have been moving ever since Jesus forgot to specify which disciple got to c...

*As a disclaimer, this is a thought experiment, not an attempt at a scientific argument.* --- Okay, so continuing my thoughts on the [Simulation Argument](http://micahredding.com/blog/2011/11/23/int...

The other day I published my [Introduction to the Simulation Argument](http://micahredding.com/blog/2011/11/23/introduction-simulation-argument), to some interesting reactions. Although it's a very si...

I think the New Testament is obsessed with the question of what is real. Of course, this is amply predated earlier in the scriptures. The Jewish prophets spent a lot of time and energy telling people...

_This is an excerpt from [my email list](http://micahredding.com/list). Click the link to get more memos like this one._ --- I've been a vegetarian for just about a decade. The other day, I ...

In 2003, Nick Bostrom published his [Simulation Argument](http://www.simulation-argument.com/), and shook the landscape of philosophy. The basic idea is easy to describe. For the past few decades, w...

In reading many, many things that have been written about people who have left or are leaving church, one thing seems to be consistent. They have been hurt. This makes sense, for a lot of reasons. ...

Today, I'm starting a new email list about [Christianity as the anti-religion](http://micahredding.com/xn). I care a lot about my religion. And the thing that concerns me the most is that, as the maj...

I care about my interactions with people more than almost anything else. But I'm not very good at keeping up with all kinds of different communications technologies coming at me at the same time. As a...

The other day, I wrote a post declaring that [I will no longer try to increase my productivity](http://micahredding.com/blog/2011/11/16/i-will-not-increase-my-productivity). This doesn't mean I won't ...

New resolve: I will not attempt to increase my productivity. For years now, sites like [Lifehacker](http://lifehacker.com) and the original [43 Folders](http://43folders.com/) functioned by telling ...

As conversant as I've been with the minimalist world, you'd think I might have achieved some level of minimalism by now. Far from it. I've rid myself of lots of things, moved a lot of stuff from my ...

_Today I decided to experiment with writing and sharing my thoughts as they came to me, using this post as a sort of notepad of constant updates. Here's what resulted._ --- A lot of people say that ...

Christianity is a platform, and platforms are measured by their generativity. For a long time, Christianity has been seen as a sort of closed box, a looped off container holding certain ideas togeth...

1 Corinthians 11 is one of the most interesting statements about female equality in the scriptures. Certainly, it's not the most clear. Nor is it the most profound - and yet, because it exposes the fa...

So here's what I want in my backpack. + 5 t-shirts. Various shades and textures of gray and black. + 2 pairs of jeans. One for nicer settings, one for longer commutes. + 1 belt. + 1 pair of general p...

In exploring the edges of my ability to write and explain myself cohesively, I've sometimes sketched out thoughts without full explanation or analysis or defense. And I've been surprised to see those ...

This is an ever-changing launching point for various ideas I'm working on. + The universe bends towards order and complexity. Far from being opposed to the laws of thermodynamics (entropy), this move...

Baptism is a ceremony or ritual where some individual pledges themselves to a larger religious group or movement. John saw it as a pledge to repentance, Peter saw it as a pledge to forgiveness, Paul s...

The relationship between science and religion has been discussed and debated for a long time now, with very little apparent progress in many quarters. I love science. I admire the genius of the scien...

Belief in God amounts to a perception that the universe is bending towards *good*. Good is winning out, complexity is increasing, beauty is spreading. If you accept that, then the lines of our future ...

A lot of people who really like Jesus, really don't like Paul. One book puts it like this: everything good in Christianity came from Jesus, everything bad came from Paul. This sort of makes sense. A...

Recently, I've had renewed interest in presenting a viewpoint I worked years and years to realize. When I was working on understanding it, I assumed that once I finished researching, I would be able t...

I do not yet know who I will be. Maybe I won't know until I get there, maybe I'll only know in retrospect, that in that moment *I was* and I *was* truly. But I think somehow it comes down to this, th...

The first chapter of the gospel of John famously connects Jesus to *the Word*. I've always understood that to refer to the spoken word of God, the same word that said "Let there be light", and spoke t...

Recently, I've become convinced that *the singularity is upon us*. I don't mean this in the sense of an impending mass human upload, or a cyborg takeover, or some other apocalyptic scenario; I mean th...

Most people frame religion as primarily an ethical phenomenon, concerned with how people behave and conduct society. I think that's incorrect. It fails to account for prevailing interest in deities an...

We're all looking for something to disrupt our life - to lift from us the heavy weight of free will and personal choice. Don't settle for the easy answers to this longing....

I used to think that maybe we could find new words, and re-express Christianity in different language. Right now, I think that idea is probably futile. Christianity without the language of fall, rede...

Here are the books that I consider foundational for me. Not because I agree with all of them, but because they are all part of me. - The Physics of Immortality - The Origin of Consciousness in the Br...

I have stumbled onto some unusual beliefs in my life, and thought it'd be interesting to try to catalog what they are. * fulfilled eschatology (preterism, transmillennialism, post-apocalyptic) * chri...

I'm aware that this may turn off some people. That's okay. Jump to the bottom if this is you. // For a few hundred years now, the general scientific consensus has been that immortality is at best un...

I'm starting to publicly document the techniques I use for going about things, not because my ways are the best, or I am some kind of authority, but because improvement comes when previously unacknowl...

I've decided to begin putting down my own personal approaches to things as "protocols", both for myself, and for anyone who might derive some utility from this bizarre practice. **File naming:** *...

Tools for your digital life Dropbox - all your important files, backed up to the cloud as you work. The most seamless and understandable solution. Simplenote - store all your plain text files and sni...

There's a lot of confusion about the meaning of Jesus' death. I don't mean that the average person doesn't get what the theologians are telling them - I mean that the upshot of most of the discussion ...

This morning I started thinking about a Jewish law which prohibits prostitutes from putting money into the temple treasury. I've always had a problem with this idea - after all, why should you avoid d...

I actually love enterprise. I love the idea of individuals and small groups of people getting together and building something wonderful, and having that wonderful something produce prosperity for them...

I've been thinking about the libertarian position on airport full-body scans. It might be a little tricky at first to decide what that position would be. After all, libertarians are known, above all,...

Going forward, the world will be increasingly centered around information. And so it is necessary to understand a few things about information. 1) Information has no location. At a fundamental level,...

I started writing this in February. Time to hit publish. :) -Micah This year, for me, is Year Zero. Why? Well, one good reason is that it's year zero of the new decade. Calendar nerds will tell you ...

I tend to collect clutter - a LOT of clutter. Most of the things I collect fall under the broad category of "mementos", and I keep them for that reason - to remind me of things I've long forgotten, to...

I watched the movie Eclipse recently. I'm not a Twilight fan, but - well, we all have people in our lives, don't we? One moment in particular stood out to me. In the middle of the one of the most int...

It is the middle of the 1st century, near downtown Corinth, just after dark on a Saturday evening. People are strolling towards the Miller's house. The Millers are a lower-level wealthy family, so th...

These are two things I wrote on Twitter earlier today. Thought I would archive them here as well. I'm a conservative in this respect: I think the scriptures give us an inside look at a moment in hist...

There are many things I do not understand about the New Testament, and the mentality behind what the New Testament authors wrote. But I think I understand this. In Jesus, God was declaring the sins ...

In 325 AD, Christianity sold its soul to Constantine and the Roman Empire. The most peaceful movement in world history beat their plows into swords, and their pruning hooks into knives. And so began t...

In my previous posts (1, 2, 3), I've tried to be careful not to offer any speculation on the actual nature of resurrection or immortality. Instead, I've tried to follow the scriptures, and simply hold...

As I've hinted in my previous posts (1, 2), I think God means that there is progress and growth for infinity, that our efforts and actions reverberate down through eternity, and that there are always ...

In my previous post, I outlined what I think reality must be like in order for human hope to persist. Now I want to examine how that looked in the first century. The New Testament scriptures begin w...

There are many philosophies of the future, many perspectives on how society progresses, and many thoughts on what gives us hope. It seems by now to have been well-established that humans need hope in...

Tonight I looked up at the clouds, and the sky beyond them, and the stars beyond that. And I thought that people were not meant to live only under the clouds, but that one day, we might climb up a lit...

Biblically speaking, Jesus' triumph, his victory over the forces mounted against him, and the completion of his own internal struggle, was on the cross. Dying, he conquered. His crucifixion was his ex...

Awhile ago, I watched a movie about the author of "Conversations with God". The author and main character, Neal Donald Walsh, claims to have heard from God over an extended period of time. In these co...

The earth is an open globe in a wide-open universe. We do not have to be constrained. We do not live in a world of scarcity. We are free. We must realize that humanity lives by cooperation. From supe...

I want to make it clear that when I talk about "God", I don't know exactly what I'm talking about. I mean, I don't want to overstate things here. I don't want you to hear something I'm not saying. "I...

My dream is to walk out of my house with nothing in my pockets (no keys, no ID, no credit cards) and to walk into the world a free and unencumbered person. And to have this be perfectly fine. I'm a l...

People throughout the scriptures receive a call - a mission that infuses their life with purpose, and compels them through danger, sacrifice, and doubt to reach the ends to which they have been driven...

There are a variety of views on homosexuality, and that's the truth. To be rough and general, three of these perspectives are: 1) Being gay is an abomination2) I don't necessarily think that homosexu...

I wrote this on October 8, 2008, 10:51pm. It has been here waiting ever since. It has been long enough. -micah --- Today I set out to understand myself. My peculiar mix of emotions and thoughts and ...

I'm a big believer in the multiverse. I can't quite explain why, but from the first time I heard the concept, I knew it was true. It just made deep, intuitive sense. Sometimes I have trouble understa...

There is a lot of confusion about what exactly Jesus teaches us to be. Many people on TV would suggest that Jesus came to teach us how to be happy. There is a lot of validity to that thought, but some...

Every moment is valuable all by itself. But sometimes other moments help us see that. At one point in my life I was extremely distressed. I walked out into the darkness, and eventually laid down behi...

Ever since I was 15, I've identified myself primarily as a songwriter. It is what I do, and who I am. And ever since I began performing, I've begun segmenting myself. There is the side of me that per...

Yesterday, it occurred to me how much of our human relationships are characterized by guilt or judgment. Guilt and being judgmental are two sides of the same blade, and that blade separates people int...

Science fiction has been defined as story in which the environment is a character. I just watched Avatar the other day, and it fits the definition both technically, and in a deeper sense. The movie A...

In the first century, Jesus of Nazareth walked into history and left an impact that reverberated throughout the world. No one before had left such a mark. In the wake of his short, amazing life, an su...

This is my rough take on a series of very complex subjects. Be warned. One of the most threatening enemies of early Christianity was gnosticism. And gnosticism was a threat for a very solid reason: ...

Think about this.Jesus went around forgiving people, and claiming the authority to forgive sins. Further, he freely offered this forgiveness, without requiring anything of the people who sought him.Bu...

Just a short list of things that have inspired me to really feel life, even if only briefly. A New Earth ...made me look at leaves differently, made me feel alive http://eckharttolle.com/a_new_earth ...

On a slight tangent, I just got accepted to beta test Google Voice. I definitely suggest putting your name on the invitation list. But how does this relate to living lightly? Google Voice is a tool f...

I want to start writing about a subject that fascinates me: how to live lightly. This involves many things. For me, it ideally means Traveling with only one bag Carrying very few things in my pock...

We're setting out to accomplish our resolutions for the new year. And they're going to be entirely different than anything you've ever seen. The first problem with most resolutions is that they shoot...

I found this while engaging in New Year's Resolution-ing: "People who shop at Walmart should not be allowed to complain that anything they buy, anywhere, is made in China." - Rustic Princess...

I'm not going to use this post to critique literal readings of the Bible. Instead, I want to paraphrase The Princess Bride, and point out: "I don't think that word means what you think it means".A lon...

I just finished the "His Dark Materials" trilogy, of which The Golden Compass is the first book. I know, I'm late on this one. The first book came out in 1995, and the movie caused a big uproar last C...

Many of the things we are tempted to chalk up to goodness and decency are really just patterns.For example, being "masculine" or "feminine". In the past, these were seen as characteristics that decent...

I've just finished writing up an article about why I believe the Second Coming has already happened. It's relatively short, far from comprehensive, and is only an attempt to look at the basics. Essent...

If our task is discover the story which makes sense of all the Bible's complexity, we need an idea of where to start. The Bible is complex, and understanding the big picture is hard. And as a result, ...

Logic There is only one domain of human knowledge that trades in absolute certainty, and that is Propositional Logic. For that very reason, a lot of our traditions have approached the Bible as if it...

I received Zehnder's newest album: "Going Up" the other day. It's being offered as worship music.It sounds quite unique. I wonder if they anticipate other people singing along to this? I don't really ...

I grew up in a series of churches that could be described as legalistic and ultra-conservative. But those designations aren't really important. The important word is shallow.It would have been easy fo...

I watched the Coldplay performance on SNL tonight. I imagine there will be a lot of different impressions of the songs, but I felt like Christ Martin demonstrated himself to be someone who throws hims...

I have been doing some reading about Genesis, the beginnings of humanity, and the evolutionary account of human origins. It strikes me that a bit of clarity in thinking is in order. One may take sever...

I am currently reading The New Mystics, by John Crowder - the guy who wants to "toke God". As has been mentioned by others, the primary feeling one has in reading this book is cognitive dissonance. Ho...

I'd like to get feedback on this. Here's a pattern I see in the bible. First, Genesis 1:Begin: the earth is formless and void and dark.Day 0: God said: "Let there be light!"Day 1: Divided the Light fr...

This is from my personal adventure blog. It deals with an alternate approach to how Christianity plays in public today. I call that approach embedded Christianity.This weekend I was asked for the tho...

This weekend I was asked for the thousandth time if my band is a "Christian band". It's a tricky question - with many ramifications on either side. If I say, "Yes, we are a Christian band", then I p...

When I was growing up, the church I was part of was offended by Christian music. According to the argument, worship only occurred in the church, without the use of instruments. Therefore, any music th...

It was our first day in Colorado. We arrived in Colorado Springs to play in the Glen Eyrie Castle. The only trouble was getting our trailer and equipment TO the castle. Turns out, they don't make cas...

Ever since I started thinking about the second coming of Jesus, this dumb title has been stuck in my head. So I'm running with it. I believe that the Apocalypse, Armageddon, the Second Coming of Jesu...

CONCLUSION That's my viewpoint. I've established that Hades and Sheol and Tartarus were places for the dead to wait for judgment. I've established that Hades is only temporary, and so the Rich man's...

THE LANGUAGE OF THE BIBLE The lens through which I would naturally view the bible, and the lens through which the original audience viewed the bible, are very different. We have statements like "Mel...

WEEPING AND GNASHING, or WHO TURNED THE LIGHTS OUT? Matthew 8:11-12 (also Mt 22:13; Mt 25:30; see Mt 13:42,50; Mt 24:51 and Luke 13:28) 11 "I say to you that many will come from east and west, and re...

GEHENNA Gehenna is the greek word for the Valley of Hinnom, a burning rubbish pit outside of Jerusalem. It was used to burn up trash and refuse. Jesus uses the metaphor of Gehenna to talk about the h...

The Scriptures Let's take a quick but complete look at the scriptures that people use to prove hell. Since translations sometimes like to blur the distinctions between the words the original writers ...

There is no hell. Period. The bible never once mentions it. It's simply not there. Instead, we have clear indications of what DOES exist, and it's not at all like hell. Now, by "hell", I mean the id...

I was walking down the block to check my mail, and I noticed the light. It was just before night, just before twilight actually, and the ambiance of the sky mixed with the streetlights. It illuminated...

Greg Newton posted a good piece about the Uncertainty of Justice over at Emergent Village.It's easy to talk about justice. It's harder to actually do justice.As he points out, even something like givi...

People often say, "God is not a democrat or republican". This is a welcome change from a few years ago, when people often claimed that a Christian could only vote for a particular political party, or ...

When I was driving through the country-side, looking for the opportunity to refuel, I came upon a gas station selling fuel for $3.19. Or so I thought. Since gas prices had just been over $4.00, this w...

Micah Redding is a world-adventurer, philosopher, and songwriter. He recently returned from touring the Middle East with his rock band The Redding Brothers. He believes that rock & roll can save t...

Today, I walked beside the lake. It was pretty - and I use that word only because "beautiful" is overdone. Beside the lake was anything but overdone. The grass ran right up the water's edge, and a ha...

Inspired by "Everything Must Change", by Brian McLaren, here is a list of parallels.Thinking you can avoid the result of sexual promiscuity through abortion, and...Thinking you can avoid the result of...

I first watched I'm Not There at the Belcourt Theater in Nashville. It's a film based on the many lives of Bob Dylan, who is played by six different characters, including Kate Blanchett. It's not your...

God does not belong to anyone.The merchants of God try to sell him, putting "half price!" and "deep discount!" stickers on him, wrapping ribbons and bows around his little box.But he is not theirs to ...

Today I went to Starbucks. This was a Starbucks on a last-stop base in Kuwait, where soldiers come before finally reaching Iraq. My brother came through here when he went through his deployment.I've g...

Tonight was our greatest show so far - and to think it would be in the African desert.I got up this morning, and walked 4 miles in the blazing sun, in a place where humidity reaches 100%. I'm not a su...

For a while now, I've been quite aware of the whole "Musician-as-Entrepreneur" community. This community revolves around re-visualizing the artist as the small business-person. And it has done some pr...

What IS community? Is it shared location? Shared experiences? Shared beliefs? Is it even possible to have significant community without the benefit of physical presence?I think so, but I think we need...

What IS community?This is something that I'm going to be thinking about for awhile.Community has traditionally referred to a geographically integrated group of people. This kind of community shares co...

I am a grand schemer; I devise plans not just for me, but for the world. And a small part of those ideas get put into practice, and change things. But most of it goes undone.During the weekend in Atla...

I am a grand schemer; I devise plans not just for me, but for the world. And a small part of those ideas get put into practice, and change things. But most of it goes undone.During the weekend in Atla...

Scientists have discovered that babies see colors differently than adults. Where babies see things are they "are", adults process colors through the filter of their language. Apparently, people who sp...

To the uninitiated, the term "pull-through" may not mean much. But it is a term ripe with meaning. Sometimes it masquerades as "pull-thru" or "pll-thrgh", but the latter is only prevalent among people...

One night this past Fall, it was a bit warm in my bedroom. Outside, though, the temperature was just perfect. So I pushed open the window and lay in bed with the perfectly tuned breeze wafting through...

Every day I teach, I take a 20-minute drive from Nashville to Murfreesboro. This drive is nothing at all compared to the pain of the morning commute into Nashville everyday.In fact, the drive just fli...

For the first time in years, I'm actually a legitimate resident of a state. That state happens to be Tennessee.For the entire time I was living in WV, I had a Washington State driver's license. Once I...

I apologize if I offended anyone with my last couple of posts. I wasn't trying to paint a bleak or pessimistic picture; I'm very optimistic about humanity. But I felt the need  to testify to the truth...

If politics is about who controls the guns (and it is), what alternatives can we create? Here are some ideas:Most people view "law" as a series of statements about what we value. As in, "we hold marri...

Here's politics and the world in a few hundred words.Law is violence. A "law" is just the statement, "do this or we will kill you". Tax law means "pay taxes or we will lock you up in jail, or shoot yo...

2/24/2006 - Teays Valley Cinemas - Scott Depot, WV3/9/2007 - Charleston Civic Center Theater - Charleston, WV...

Three guys who grew up listening to their dad play Johnny Cash tunes on an acoustic guitar have embraced the spirit of independent rock & roll. From the backwoods of West Virginia, the dust of Okl...

Connect with The Redding Brothers on any and all of these social networks:FacebookiLikeLast.fmMyspacePurevolumeFlickrYouTubeBeboVIRBimeemTwitter...

The latest thought-provoking release from the band that invented Rock Philosophy. The Physics Of Immortality...

I watched I'm Not There last night at the Belcourt Theatre in Nashville. It's a film based on the many lives of Bob Dylan, who is played by six different characters, including Kate Blanchett. I 'm not...

I like proofs.I find beauty in elegant mathematical facts, strung together to establish surprising truths with rock-hard precision.But as I've gotten older, I've reluctantly realized that bible study ...

I read an article the other day which was intent on drawing the battle lines across our culture.It stated that there were two views of Jesus in common circulation: the view that Jesus is God, and the ...

I'm actually too young to be sure if the title of this post makes a meaningful reference or not. I'm guessing it does, however, and am continuing on that assumption.For the past few months, I haven't ...

A couple of points:Towers are tall. And wobbly.Everyone should drink Choco Giraffello - a chocolate drink from Mexico, with a hint of cayenne.You can't order pizza in Wilmore, KY late at night.8 peopl...

We took a trip up to the fabulous land of Iowa City, Iowa for a big show. The Marriot we stayed at had a very helpful sign to let us know not to drive up on the grass.On Friday, we decided to drive...

This past weekend, I was at a conference where entertainers of all types performed in front of college students from all over. We performed too.One of the performances that struck me was a "spoken wor...

This weekend, I was in Iowa City, Iowa for a conference in which hundreds of college students from tons of colleges gather to find entertainment to bring to their campuses. For the entire weekend, per...

Yesterday, my tires desperately needed patching from whatever it was I had put them through, so I took a trip to my local Walmart. Getting tires patched is usually a 5-10-15 minute job or so, so I did...

In my bio, I refer to a time when I detained a criminal while waiting for the police to arrive. I was recently asked for details about this incident, so I thought I would convey the story. A warning: ...

Just got back from my travels in Canadia. There are a lot of things that are great about that wonderful land, including the metric system, degrees in Celcius, bilingual everything, Tim Horton's, the M...

The most basic human desire is to "have" another person, to possess the essence of someone else.But you can't.You can come close sometimes. You can marry someone. You can have a child, which depends o...

China will be the most Christian nation on earth.In this article, the author suggests that Christianity is on the verge of becoming China-centric. Christianity is growing faster in China than in anywh...

If you haven't noticed yet, we've just completed FOUR MONTHS of writing, recording, and releasing one new song every week - every Saturday at midnight. In doing so, we've had a lot of variety, from sa...

According to Wikipedia, and the Jewish websites I've been able to peruse, today (July 24th), is the 9th of Av. What is the 9th of Av? Most importantly, it is the date of the Destruction of both the Fi...

For me to think your faith holds any credibility, you need to have read and digested something like this:Why Does God Hate Amputees?It's a scathing critique of theism, and as crass as it sounds, it ma...

We just got back from a great weekend, involving a trip to WV, spending some time with our grandparents, hauling a large radio antenna across town on top of our car, getting stung by a wasp, staying o...

When we announced that we were looking at Paducah, KY as our next stop for a large CD release concert, we were asked on several occasions, “Why Paducah?” to which our immediate response was almost uni...

In response to my post on The Problem of Evil, some atheists over at Way of The Mind have been discussing the issue. The relevant argument they've been making is that my reasoning means that there are...

"Bob isn't the man he used to be.""You aren't the same person I fell inlove with.""What happened to that little girl I used to hold on my knee?"Every day, we become a different person than we were the...

It's been a few days since I published my answer to The Problem of Evil, and I've gotten some interesting responses. I didn't realize when I set out to write it how much it would affect me. Thanks to ...

Just to let you know, I do have another blog, in which I am busy answering all the secrets of the universe. Just beware - religion is involved. Ooooh...scary.Currently, I am addressing the problem of ...

If the multiverse, with the collection of all possible histories, really does exist, what does that mean for the Problem of Evil? Why does that solve it, or tell us anything about it?At first glance, ...

In the previous post, I've tried to establish that the given answers to the Problem of Evil are not only incorrect, but they almost always lead us towards dangerous philosophies that directly oppose t...

Continuing the thoughts processes brought to the forefront by my recent read of "The Physics of Christianity", I would like to look at how to solve the Problem of Evil with modern physics.The Problem ...

When I was about 13, I read a book called "The Physics of Immortality". Now, 12 years later, the author (Frank Tipler), has released a sequel called "The Physics of Christianity". I recently bought it...

For the last several weeks, we've been spending almost all of our time in Paducah, KY, a strangely artistic little town on the border of Metropolis, IL (self-proclaimed home of Superman).Last week I w...

I realized that I am a fortunate person. Even when all kinds of little things in my life are going wrong (my car's radiator and AC condenser got smashed in, leaving me with radiator repair debt and no...

So I've been mulling over how it is that someone can make sure they enjoy their life. Here are my best guesses at the moment.1. Learn to play an instrument. Guitar or piano always make great conversat...

I am troubled by the rise of the belief in the "closed system".As I see it, the world and the universe are an "open system". We are not defined by a limited set of alternatives and resources available...

In case you hadn't read our website recently, we've embarked on a new project: to write a new song every week, record it, and release it by Saturday night at midnight.It's a tough gig forcing creativ...

The way you can tell that you have an original-run of The Physics of Immortality is by reading the lyrics in the liner notes. There are two tracks 11s, and no track 10....

The big day was finally here: the release party for our second full length album, and the most important concert we'd ever done.Waking up on a day like this is always kind of interesting. I've had thi...

I just watched "Jesus Camp".I was struck.I realized why people on TV act as if Christians are strange. Apparently, they are. I've never really been around those kind of Christians. Apparently these ar...

Kevin posed an interesting question about post-mortem fate and eternal life. Why are humans fascinated with this subject?Let me answer by going as nerdy as I can, and approaching this question from t...

More thoughts on "Blood Diamond" from yesterday...One of the politicians in the movie stated that Africa has a history when it comes to natural resources. Any time something valuable is discovered, wh...

I just finished watching "Blood Diamond", and it inspired my thoughts.One of the main characters kept saying, "When the fighting stops, this place will be paradise; when peace comes, this place will b...

In our society, people often want to blame their problems on things outside themselves. Nice example.-micah...

In some circles, I would be classified as liberal.I believe in gender equality. I am against racism, prejudice, and discrimination of many different kinds. I believe in helping people, in doing good f...

Hmmmmmm...-micah(PS. Thanks to my friend Andy Ogle for pointing this out to me)...

We spent a long weekend in Pittsburgh attending the APCA conference, and meeting a lot of wonderful people. It was a very enlightening experience, and I talked to people who had been performing at col...

It sounds silly, but what happens when your job conflicts with your real life? When your job keeps you too stressed to function well when you are off?This is a catch-22 situation. If you keep your str...

Pedro, over at Way of The Mind (an atheist blog) gave a very insightful post about "awe". His perspective is that religion could have seized upon the advance of science to display an even more immense...

This is your first secret fact about the album.Listen to Chauvet with the volume turned up really high. As Gabe was recording the vocals for this song, a couple of people walked in and started laughin...

I was considering today how much God has changed the world.Consider the fact that today we have a significant minority of people who feel that capital punishment is WRONG, and feel strongly about it. ...

In the past 3 months or so, I have had hardly any time. Thus, the fact that it has been a while since I posted on this blog. I have been living the crazy, leave-work-and-immediately-leave-town-for-ano...

I've begun noticing a sort of central theme throughout the New Testament, a concept that seems to undergird most of the basis of the New Covenant. That theme is obvious, yet obviously a unique realiza...

In the story of Spider-man, Peter Parker is always trying to juggle his twin duties of holding down a normal life (as, say, a college student), and living up to the huge demands of being Spider-man. T...

Apparently Apple has just released a new iPod like "iPhone" that runs Mac OSX. It works in conjunction with Cingular, Google, and Yahoo. And unlike every other gadget on the market, I think I might ac...

Kevin Beck posted a great analysis of Bertrand Russell's argument against Christianity.Bertrand Russell said that:1) Jesus said he would return in the first century.2) He didn't return in the first ce...

In John 1, we are told, God tells how he used Jesus to create the world. But, why does Genesis not mention this? That is what I always wondered, until just recently. You see, John 1 doesn't actually ...

I ran across this article about healthy habits you can develop, and interestingly enough, one of the twelve habits listed was "wear casual clothes whenever possible".No, this is not a joke. Researcher...

In the beginning, when black people created music, all was good and right in the world.And the people separated music into two forms: Rock & Roll, and R & B.Each of these forms of music would...

The day had come to record our drum tracks, the final touch to our album. Some producers might consider that backwards, but up until then, we had been doing all of our recording for instruments and vo...

Kevin Beck wrote this blog about the future. Here was my comment: --- The future is something that people, by and large, don't believe in. That's why I thought it was amazing when Frank Tipler, a ph...

A year ago today, I wrote down my resolutions for 2006. How well I've lived up to them is open to discussion, but here they are again.I promised you my resolutions for this year, so here they are: 1...

People talk about God having a plan for your life. I think differently. If God planned everyone's life in advance, why should we bother to live it? Even more, if God planned everyone's life in advance...

Pedro posted an article claiming that the founding fathers were not Christian, that they were deists, and that they WOULD have been atheists if they had had modern science. Here was my response:The fo...

The Redding Brothers Blog: How to be a weekend Rock StarA great, step-by-step, 10-step guide to becoming a rock star without quitting your day job.-The Carpet-Meister...

1. Grow your hair long - but not long enough to get you fired from your day job.Tuck it behind your ears during the day to make it seem shorter. Joke about how you've been too busy working to go in fo...

According to the article below, the White House is considering classifying Polar Bears as an endangered species.The article points out that this is an issue because Polar Bears are loved for their app...

I was doing a little browsing and stumbled onto some weird facts that, to me anyway, were rather shocking.1) The Nephilim. In Genesis 6, these are the offspring of the "sons of God" and the "daughters...

Revelation is a very complex book. Most of it is written in symbols only familiar to those steeped in the Jewish religion. And the number of bizarre interpretations of it available make the book very ...

Today it drove away. Away to a new home.It was an 8-foot by 8-foot, self-supported, huge cardboard poster of the new Miami Vice movie. We got it from the Teays Valley Cinemas as a victory trophy after...

I just got word that my blog has been featured on Adam's yearly Christmas blog-post, linked here:http://adamsweb.us/blog/index.php/a/2006/12/21/carnival_of_christmas_iiThey picked it up because of my ...

In 1Corinthians 10, Paul compared the post-Exodus Israelites to the first century Christians. His point was to warn of the danger of falling away, and to warn that falling away was a present reality, ...

In a surprise announcement on Saturday, scientists at the University of Doowap Regional Scientific Research Center revealed that a new study had been conducted testing the link between "rock & rol...

Aza Raskin (son of Jef Raskin, creator of the Apple Macintosh), posted the following puzzle over at Humanized.com:http://www.humanized.com/weblog/2006/12/15/humanized_interface_puzzler/An interface ha...

The SNOW EP was a project born of interestingness. It began as a concert that we planned to do in December of 2004 at "the Brickhouse", a small hole-in-the-wall kind of venue in St Albans, WV. It woul...

In a World where Bland Music is the Order of the Day…One band will take a stand against it all…And Pay…The Ultimate Price.…$12.99…Welcome to…Rock & Roll Can Save The World…-micah...

Imagine this: you're standing around a warm fireplace on Christmas Eve, bundled up in a woolen sweater, with some after-Christmas-feast eggnog in your mittened paws. Aunt Ruth kindly points out that e...

So the other day I went to court. It turns out that we had tried to buy a house a while back, and when the bank appraised the house, they came back and said, "it ain't worth that much". So the deal fe...

Perhaps I should explain something about myself that some people may not know.I am obsessed with containers.That's right, containers. Of all kinds.For example, my room is filled with large, Sterilite ...

If you were to decide on your favorite Christmas carol, what would it be?Maybe the traditional "White Christmas"? I'm dreaming of a...Or the ridiculous "Grandma got run over by a reindeer"?Or the fun ...

On Saturday, we got up very early to go play a show at the Cedar City Christmas Show in Lebanon, TN. It was a pretty awesome event, simply because we made the decision to let Gabe bring his djembe ins...

We took the whole weekend and used our time to lay down tracks for 8 songs that will be appearing on our upcoming release, but for the songs we were working with, we decided to use our in-home studio ...

You may have realized that the Redding Brothers are a little eccentric. What you may not have realized is how deep this really goes. For example, while other families were wasting their time this past...

Who could pass up the chance to create their own warning label? I certainly couldn't, so I went and made one. If you've ever thought that some people need to come with a warning label, make them one.h...

A guy named Sig talks about why we don't need hierarchies in companies, and a friend of his challenged him with a few objections...* Hierarchies are the natural, programmed organizational model hard-...

This weekend was Thanksgiving. Everybody was eating huge meals, watching parades and football ... and expressing gratitude. It's funny how we feel the need to have holidays for those things we should ...

Folks, we are busy gearing up for the March 9th, 2007 concert at the Charleston Civic Center. Yes, we are working on it already! What I'd like to tell you are some of the things that are going into th...

Folks, we are busy gearing up for the March 9th, 2007 concert at the Charleston Civic Center. Yes, we are working on it already! What I'd like to tell you are some of the things that are going into th...

This is the Shirt you've been waiting for. It says "I Heart Polar Bears", with a big red heart, and it looks like those "I Heart NY" tshirts, only cooler. I dreamed up the "Polar Bear Song" WAAAY too ...

Well, this is it. The phenomenon that is starting to take on a life of its own now has a Blog. It already hasa myspace page: myspace.com/iheartpolarbearsmusican email address: iheartpolarbears@gmail.c...

It's coming, I know it is. The time when Christians will wake up and realize that:"Any government powerful enough to give you whatever you want is also powerful enough to take away everything you have...

I must be really tired right now, as my eyes are starting to be sore around the edges, and my eyelids are wanting to droop. I suppose that's what happens when you stay up until 1am, and get up at 6am ...

I wrote this February 19, 2004...not long after I "got off the boat" and landed in WV. It's weird how time seems so compressed sometimes. Anyway, here it is. Enjoy.-micahWhat is good music? I guess th...

One of the things that has happened in recent years has been the tendency for pop stars to eschew political or other beliefs. (Did you notice me slip the word "eschew" in there casually?)The reason fo...

I took this test to find my Autism Quotient, and I got a 10, which is below average. 11+ is average. This is essentially measuring your inability to socialize...the higher the number, the less ability...

I have this dream...a dream where I am awake in the wee hours of the morning, looking out over the city, writing songs. In this dream, I live on the edge of the road, and every day means new cities an...

The New Testament says, "the law was a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ..." When Jesus came, the law was no longer needed. It was fulfilled. Many Christians today believe that Christianity is a set ...

Furious Pursuit is a book I just read by Tim King and Frank Martin. And it's awesome. I've gotten my girlfriend to read it, and I'm going to get my parents and friends to read it too.The book says tha...

I was listening to the radio talk about how the Tennessee Senate election (between Bob Corker and Harold Ford Jr) was a "race issue", when I passed by some "Women for Ford" on the side of the road. I ...

Our recording session for Friday got cancelled. We were scheduled from 8 p.m to 4 a.m., and John Sherrod, our producer from Murfreesboro, TN called and told us the engineer was going to be working ear...

There was a disagreement in the air as we sat in the plush production room at MTSU’s Studio B – one of the largest and most expensive recording studios in middle Tennessee – that by some act of fate w...

I hate politics.And thus the source of my political opinion. Because politics is all about everything that is worst in the world. Political races are brutal struggles for power. Power that is then use...

I hate politics.And thus the source of my political opinion. Because politics is all about everything that is worst in the world. Political races are brutal struggles for power. Power that is then use...

About three weeks ago, Josiah, Gabe, and I decided to stop drinking soda, milk, juice, etc, and start drinking only water. My thoughts were that I was tired of waking up exhausted and having to drink ...

Stream The SongRead The StoryClouds (w:m micah redding)A long time ago, a nation very far awayYoung men stood on a hillside, dreaming of another dayThey never knew what this would lead to, all these v...

Stream The SongRead The StoryClouds (w:m micah redding)A long time ago, a nation very far awayYoung men stood on a hillside, dreaming of another dayThey never knew what this would lead to, all these v...

Clouds (w:m micah redding)A long time ago, a nation very far awayYoung men stood on a hillside, dreaming of another dayThey never knew what this would lead to, all these visions, all these thingsAll t...

Listen to the newly recorded version of Clouds:Stream it-micah...

When I was in college, I spent a lot of time studying the events that happened in the first century. They captivated my imagination, and in them I saw a vision of some of the monumental shifts occurin...

Clouds (w:m micah redding)A long time ago, a nation very far awayYoung men stood on a hillside, dreaming of another dayThey never knew what this would lead to, all these visions, all these thingsAll t...

Listen to the newly recorded version of Clouds:Stream it-micah...

When I was in college, I spent a lot of time studying the events that happened in the first century. They captivated my imagination, and in them I saw a vision of some of the monumental shifts occurin...

Very interesting. I just heard "Cats in the Cradle" remade by DMC and Sarah McLachlen. You should listen to it.-micah...

Very interesting. I just heard "Cats in the Cradle" remade by DMC and Sarah McLachlen. You should listen to it.-micah...

It's Tuesday, October 25th, and we're working on it...Emily & NickSeth HarperMayflye...

The Murphy's Loft showcase was great. We had Rob Hawkins open up, followed by Shelley Raymond (a graduate of the Edgehill Studios Showcase who has an awesome stage presence). Then Seth Harper played a...

Shelley Raymond's free and fearless vocals range from a cooing whisper to a soulful, plaintiff howl. Her lyrics tear you apart line by line, only to build you back again with verse after verse of surg...

The Writers Showcase @ Edgehill StudiosTueday, September 25th7:00pm-9:00pmJohn VeLoraBilly SwayzeOriginally from New York, Scott Maskiell began his songwriting career while on a national tour of the r...

Shelley Raymond's free and fearless vocals range from a cooing whisper to a soulful, plaintiff howl. Her lyrics tear you apart line by line, only to build you back again with verse after verse of surg...

The Writers Showcase @ Edgehill StudiosTueday, September 25th7:00pm-9:00pmJohn VeLoraBilly SwayzeOriginally from New York, Scott Maskiell began his songwriting career while on a national tour of the r...

Brian White is a staff writer for BMG / Brentwood Benson. He has 10 number one songs to his credit in the Christian Market and is a 2 time Dove Award winner. Currently has songs in the country market ...

Brian White is a staff writer for BMG / Brentwood Benson. He has 10 number one songs to his credit in the Christian Market and is a 2 time Dove Award winner. Currently has songs in the country market ...

Okay, here's the lineup:Brian WhiteGentry MorrisTres CrowShelley RaymondRob BlackledgeMayflye...

All right, I'm now hosting a new Writers Showcase.Micah Redding's Writer ShowcaseEdgehill Studios (Edgehill Ave & 16th)Tuesday, 30 August 20057-9pmAnd I'm working on another one at Murphy's Loft. ...

Things have been taking off recently...did the show in Dickson, got the talent showcase at House Blend in Columbia, got the Rocketown show. Now we've got the HYAMP show back in WV, which is going to b...

I've finally figured out my apartment difficulties, and I didn't even have to try. My housing fell out of the sky into my lap. The place I'll be staying has a NICE pool, weight room, volleyball courts...

Brian White is a staff writer for BMG / Brentwood Benson. He has 10 number one songs to his credit in the Christian Market and is a 2 time Dove Award winner. Currently has songs in the country market ...

Tried the street performing thing. It was on a Thursday night, so it wasn't the busiest time. And I only stayed out there 30 minutes.But it was fun. Lots of people talked to me. The homeless people ga...

Today I talked with Tammy Hyler, a multi-hit songwriter. If you've got iTunes, go to the music store, do an advanced search, and search for her name under "composer". She wrote a lot of stuff for Coll...

As The Nashville Rage reported, I'm hosting a Writers Showcase at Edgehill Studios, just off of Music Row. The event happens at this great venue:Edgehill Studios (on Edgehill Ave & 16th)Tuesday, A...

I called in to a talk show today and shared my views on immigration. It's something I've wanted to do for a while just for the experience, so I've finally done it. It was interesting, they had me wait...

I just realized I'm the most geographically ambiguous person I know. I have a drivers license from Washington State, a car with WV tags, and I live in Nashville.Hmmm...-micah...

In the next couple of days, the website will be undergoing some major renovations, so if you experience a lack of service or an error message, please be patient and check back soon. And believe us, th...

The all-new full-length CD from the Redding Brothers, entitled "Wisdom from the Green Shag Carpet", has finally been released. The release party was held at the Borders Cafe last night and was a huge ...

Just wanted to let you know that after over a year of delaying, we're finally releasing our first-ever full-length studio-quality album, Green Shag Carpet. It's gonna feature 10 of our newest songs wi...

Hey everyone...we just got back from our trip to Nashville and we've got TONS of pictures posted in the Photos section. Some of them are quite weird, so go check it out now! Just click here or click o...

Hi everyone,The band took a trip down to Nashville this on Friday to do a couple of promo 'unplugged' shows around the area. On Friday they were at HouseBlend in the Dixon area and today at 7:00 p.m. ...

I went and saw Batman Begins the other night, and it was by far the best Batman movie ever. As some have said, it was Batman done right. It wasn't completely free of cheesiness, but it was the most be...

This is an interesting Commencement Address by Steve Jobs. Maybe we should make it into a song. Oh wait...In other news, I met Mindy Smith today. Well, rung up her purchase anyway. She's a musician he...

Last night we played at the Attic Club in Dayton, OH, and there really weren't very many people there at all. But that's all good...because the people that were there were the COOLEST EVER, and we got...

This weekend, we will finally be returning to Charleston. On Friday night, we will be playing at Taylor Books on Capitol Street.Come out and visit us!-micah...

Yep. I got a free iPod today, with 101 songs on it. One of the perks of working for Apple Computer.-micah...

I went out to see Gentry Morris perform at a $5 show. But while I was there, my car got towed, and the show turned into a $100 show. A $100 that I don't have, seeing as my company hasn't managed to pa...

About three weeks ago, Josiah, Gabe, and I decided to stop drinking soda, milk, juice, etc, and start drinking only water. My thoughts were that I was tired of waking up exhausted and having to drink ...

On Monday I hit the open mic at Bluebird Cafe, which is famous in Nashville, and played Abbey Road and Mr Rogers. Tonight I played at the Douglas Corner Cafe, and performed Solid and Mr Rogers. Solid ...

We've got interesting stuff going on here behind the scenes. The other day I tried street performing for the first time, and met some interesting people. I only stayed out there for a couple of minute...

Okay, time for everybody to go sign up for the forum: Register to become a Member of The Brick & Stone Co. And go there. -micah...

Last night was our Dayton Borders Cafe show...though *some* band members thought it was the Attic Club show (scheduled for tonight, not last night) and went to the completely wrong side of town. Micah...

We've got something new in the works, and it should be cool...A new forum for everyone to interact on, post movie, music, and book reviews, get the latest inside scoop, critique our performances, etc,...

Still looking for an apartment while staying with a guy I knew from school. I've got a particular one I definitely want. Hopefully, everything will work out, and I'll talk to the land-lady on Wednesda...

So Monday was my first day...It was fun, and I got to meet all my managers at my store, as well as people from all over the country who were training with us. I ate lunch at Backyard Burgers, and ate ...

Okay, well I'm gonna start journaling my experiences in moving...Thursday was my last day at Rendezvous in Teays Valley, WV, and on Sunday I made the drive to Nashville. I was hired to work at the new...

We've got two shows this weekend...Dayton Borders2040 Miamisburg Centerville Rd.Dayton, OH 45459Phone:937.434.3800...Friday, 8pm...The Attic ClubDayton, OH...Saturday, 8:00pm......

the talent showcase was great...you guys were a lot of fun...Brittany Bentley (country)Jesse (acoustic guitar & vocals)Roger Rabalai (in the style of Jimmy Buffet)Tim Edmonds (with the Marryin' Yo...

Okay, two shows this weekend...Colony TheaterHillsboro, OHFriday, May 13th7:00pmWith: Latest Heartbreak, Noah Smith group, Zack AndersonLocal Talent Showcase @ RendezvousTeays Valley, WVSaturday, May ...

On Tuesday, we hosted Che Zuro at Rendezvous House of Coffee in Teays Valley. She was on a tour from PA to Nashville to who knows where, and she needed a place to play while coming through WV. So we s...

The Capitol Roasters show was great...but we ran 46 minutes over schedule! We squeezed a lot of talented people into our roster, and although the show was barely advertised, the turnout was high. Beca...

THIS Friday, we're stepping out on a limb. We're expanding our Local Talent Showcase to Capitol Roasters in Charleston. It'll be exciting - big venue, nice place, right in the heart of Charleston, etc...

I had to do something productive this weekend, so I went out a bought something I'd been wanting for a while...Velcro Shoes.I haven't had a pair since I was six, and once I started thinking about them...

Good entertainment. Better than I expected.>> Two fins....

Nice....

Dumb. Perverted....

Great movie. I need to watch it again, because in parts I only half paid attention, and as a consequence, I think I missed the big twist in the movie. But it was good. It's about time travel.(>...

This weekend we're doing nothing. Well, sorta. We don't have any concerts. But I am running up to Charleston to hold the auditions for the Capitol Roasters Local Talent Showcase next weekend. This wil...

On Sunday afternoon, we performed at Meghan's birthday party...AT THE HURRICANE PARK!Ok, so normally, playing outside would be great, fantastic even.BUT IT WAS SNOWING!That's right, we played outside ...

No, we didn't play the Back To The Future theme song. Instead, we rehashed our artistic history by playing our songs in the chronological order of when they were written, bringing back a bunch of song...

So after all this Brickhouse madness, of course I had to go to someone else's show at HYAMP. Neutral Agreement, The Apprentice, Terminal, and Juliana Theory were playing. The Jiants were also there, a...

So Saturday was basically awesome. The bands were-One Last Call-Fletcher's Grove-Vintage Tone-The Jiants...and of course, us.We had an awesome snowcone machine, a movie called "Santa Claus Conquers Th...

The weekend was great. We started out Friday by driving up to Pittsburgh to play a "test the waters" concert in a local Borders. We had never been to Pburgh before, so it was an adventure for us. It's...

Hannah Bird, who is another fantabulous individual helping us out, made up her own awesome flyer. Check it out:Hannah Bird's Flyer...

Hey everyone! The preparations for the Brickhouse show are in the final stretch, and we're excited. Rayvenn, one of the fantastic individuals working with us to setup this show, created her own flyer....

The Brickhouse show is the NEXT BIG THING, guys! You don't want to miss it! In latest updates, here are some CCCCRAZY flyers we invented:Martha StewartMr. TPedroSanta ClausOkay, so those flyers convin...

Friday night with Junior at Common Grounds was great - he turned out to be a highly creative songwriter, one of the most interesting I've seen. Siah, though, was stuck in Nashville and did't make it u...

Well, we're off. We'll be driving to Lexington, KY tonight for a concert at Common Grounds with Junior. We'll stay in Georgetown, KY tonight, and then head up to Dayton on Saturday morning.The Univers...

We are officially putting on a show at...The Brickhouse (52 Old Main St, St. Albans, WV)Saturday, April 16th6:00pmTentative Lineup is:-Vintage Tone-Fletcher's Grove-The Jiants-One Last Call-The Reddin...

Well, we drove a lot this past week. Micah went to Nashville on Tuesday night, and stayed with his friends there, looking around and "scoping out the scene". He went to a concert and saw Luna Halo per...

Okay, so I don't really know what I meant by "SLAMMED", but it made it sound more interesting, didn't it?So anyway, we got a call at 12:30am Friday night (Saturday morning), and found out that we were...

Well, it was that time again. The ever-popular Rendezvous Local Talent Showcase went off without a...err, too many...hitches. Here was the lineup:Scott & Claire Rogan (returning bluegrass maestros...

We had a great night last Friday at Borders. Lots of you guys came out, we really enjoyed it, and it even made us feel better (we were all sick that day).Also in the audience were members of SRO. Chec...

Last night (2/25/05 @ 8:30 p.m.) the Redding Brothers played a rocking benefit concert at the Colony Theatre in Hillsboro, OH for the second time. The band not only did the show free, but also gave ne...

Tomorrow, Friday, 7:30-9:30pm at Taylor Books in Charleston, Micah will be performing solo. Fun, fun, fun.(PS. Fletcher's Grove ended up playing, and it was cool. We just switched off every 15 minutes...

Gotta say it, MORP was awesome. Gregg Oxley put this thing on, and it was great. The lineup was something like this:*Fletcher's Grove (Ryan Krofcheck, Matt, & Evan)Another Band with a girl singer ...

Ooooh...the excitement. We've updated our tour page system, so it's a lot better than it used to be. Now, the next upcoming concerts are actually at the top, and the ones after that are below, etc. Ju...

Okay, so this one lady remembers her son dying, but everyone else thinks she's crazy. She never had a son, according to her husband, her doctor, the neighbors. Her photo albums are empty, her home vid...

Okay, guys, here it is. The official tentative lineup for the 2nd Rendezvous Local Talent Showcase, 7:00-9:30pm, Friday, February 11th.Scott & Clair Rogan 7:00-7:15Ryan Krofcheck 7:15-7:30Brian S...

Hey everyone...we started off the weekend with the clutch going out in my vehicle, leaving me transportation-less, but it was all uphill...err...downhill...err...good from there. We played on Friday a...

This weekend, we travelled to Lexington to play at Lock&Key, a cool coffeeshop made out of an old bank. Most of the old bank furniture was still there, and hanging out in the safe was the coolest ...

A FREE copy of tonight's live performance at Capitol Roasters Cafe will be available to attendees! Simply sign up for the mailing list, or if you're already signed up, bring a friend to qualify!...

The Open Mic Night went great! It wasn't just fun - we had a lot of high-quality performers. Here is the line-up: Timothy C Edmonds - original and often humorous music Becky Nickerson - folk and vari...

Hello everyone... This weekend, we will be hosting the Open Mic Night @ Rendezvous in Teays Valley. We've got a lot of quality performers, and it's free...so be there!...

Hope everyone survived the holidays okay. Siah's still in Washington State, we're getting ready to "ring in the New Year's", and everyone's still trying to recover from Christmas. We're gearing up for...

We played in Hillsboro, Oh on Friday, and it was great. Never been to that town before, but it was fun with the whole old-building/smalltown-life thing going on. Definitely looks like a Christmas movi...

Your friend Micah Redding has sent you a postcard from the Jones Soda Photo Gallery site which you can pick up at http://www.jonessoda.com/gallery/card.php?68884-TREPSWG9PG Your postcard will be av...

So, we spent the weekend in Cincinnati performing. Siah even rescheduled his ACT to take place in Cincinnati so we could pull it off. Chalk it up to another crazy thing we've done. Anyway, it was gre...

This Saturday, December 11th, at 4:00pm, we will be playing at Everybody's Records in Cincinnati. This record store is a true classic, dating back to the 70s. It's had bands play there for years. So ...

Our new Polar Bear and Redding Brothers buttons have arrived! And at 2 for $1, you can afford both! Similar stickers are also available, so be sure to pick some up at our next concert. You don't want ...

We've been given a last minute concert at HYAMP in Huntington, WV, opening for The Beautiful Down and others. It starts at 7:00pm, on Tuesday, November 30th, and the door cost is $5. It's really impo...

We've just posted some new photos on our photos page (imagine that). Anyway, some of them are from our Battle of The Bands Show, and you might be in them. Warning: Some of the pictures are kinda large...

After a long and anguished wait, the "I Found A Leprechaun" Buttons have ARRIVED! Featuring a handsome Leprechaun, these 1-inch buttons are perfect for everything you use buttons for, and make great ...

On Sunday (November 14th), the Huntington Herald-Dispatch ran a full-size article on the Reddings Brothers in their Life section. The article discussed the Got Milk? Battle of the Bands, as well as th...

Well, our concert on Saturday went well, we had a lot of fun, and Gabe finally got back - a day late, and a dollar short - as the saying goes. So since we're dorks, we spent the day restructuring our ...

As some of you may know, a few weeks ago Gabe took a trip to Seattle, WA to visit some friends of ours. As originally planned, he was supposed to get back in plenty of time for our upcoming show at WV...

After 3 weeks of not hearing the Redding Brothers live, aren't you dying for their refreshing sound? Well, we've got relief on the way. Our next concert is November 13th (7-9pm) at The Coffee Connecti...

I'm almost finished with the second volume of the first season. This is a great show, very original, entertaining and compelling. Everything happens in real-time, which is an awesome idea for a show....

This movie involves Dracula, vampire-wives, Frankenstein AND his monster, Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, the Catholic Church, some creepy people, and a very attractive looking female monster-hunter. Oh yeah,...

This based-on-a-true-story tale of an Australian outlaw was pretty good. Not too cliche, just enough adventure, humor, and romance to make this balance out well for a real good movie. This movie gets...

Sunday, October 10th the Redding Brothers played in the Got Milk? Shake Things Up Tour 2004 Battle of the Bands competition for a $200 prize and a chance at the national finals....

The Redding Brothers will be collaborating with bands Time and Distance, Scenes from a Movie, and Fairweather Fan for a HUGE show on October 8th at the St. Albans Brickhouse (52 Old Main Plaza, St. Al...

The Reddings have been in the studio for the last 2 days straight working on their newest single release, available for download here. The track is a re-recording (from the ground up) of their acclaim...

9/25/04 - The concert that actually didn't happen. During the first half of the show, 3 guitar strings were broken, several cables malfunctioned, and the sound system spontaneously changed volumes. Du...

9/24/04 - The concert that almost didn't happen. First of all, electricity went down all over town, taking out traffic lights, convenience stores, and half of the venue! Traffic was a nightmare, half ...

9/10/04 - The Redding Brothers will be performing in Charleston at Taylor Books on Friday, September 10th, 7:30-9:30pm. This will be the West Virginia debut of Gabe's new digital drumset, so it's sure...

8/25/04 - The Redding Brothers will be returning to Dayton this weekend for a special concert at the A Coffee Affair shop at 4 West Franklin Street. Those of you who came to see the Reddings play at t...

08/25/04 - The Redding Brothers debuted their show in Cincinnati last weekend to a great response. The Borders at Eastgate Mall hosted this concert on Saturday, August 21 at 7:30 p.m., and Cincinattia...

This weekend, Saturday the 14th (7-9pm), the Reddings will deliver a 2-hour performance at Espresso Euphoria in Barboursville, on Route 60, the exit right after (west of) the Huntington Mall. It's gon...

A middle-weight suspense movie about the dark side of the Catholic church - and all the beliefs and practices it wanted to forget about. Basically a kind of sidelined priest discovers some underground...

RM is an abbreviation that means something about being a Mormon missionary. Never would have guessed that this would be a topic for a smart, irreverent, perfectly appropriate and family-friendly comed...

Waking Life is one of the most interesting movies I've watched in a while. First of all, it's animated. Second of all, the animation is different than anything I've seen. They actually recorded the wh...

The Reddings will perform at a benefit concert this weekend in Elkins, WV. This concert is to benefit a young boy who has been diagnosed with cancer. The Reddings perform 8:00-9:30pm on Friday. Get di...

A new state experienced the noisy force of the Redding Brothers, as they expanded their regular performance locations into the Ohio area, beginning at a local Borders store in Dayton. Another state wa...

BARBOURSVILLE, WV - The Reddings kept the atmosphere relaxed and interactive, and the intimate setting made the listener feel a true connection with the band and with the songs....

BARBOURSVILLE, WV - Fans who attended the June 11th concert at Borders in the Huntington Mall were treated to a special surprise -- a free copy of the Redding Brothers' all-new "sneak-peak" pre-releas...

HUNTINGTON, WV - On May 23 at 2:00 p.m., the Redding Brothers performed at the Elite Model Search "Half-Time Show" at the Huntington Mall, playing to a huge audience of contestants and bystanders. Due...

TULSA, OK - In late March, the Reddings traveled to Tulsa and performed in several area venues, including the massive Tulsa Expo Center. Photos of the Redding Brothers' performances in Tulsa are avail...

CHARLESTON, WV - The Reddings have announced that everyone who subscribes to the mailing list will be entered into a drawing to win free prizes from the Redding Brothers Store like their upcoming CD G...

CHARLESTON, WV - The Redding Brothers' self-produced demo album "Rough Draft" has now officially sold out! Not to worry, plans are already being made for a reprint that should be ready in a couple of ...

SEATTLE, WA - The moment has finally come and the critics are raving. Get your copy of the all-new, first-ever musical recording of the Redding Brothers, RoughDraft. RoughDraft is now available nation...