# 2023-09 CTA Board Meeting Minutes

- **Date:** 2023-09-07
- **Participants:**
- Micah Redding (Executive Director)
- Lincoln Cannon
- Jonathan Gunnell
- Omar Reyes
- Mark Russell

- Lorenzo Barberis Canonico (Secretary)
- Elias Kruger
- **Absent:**
- **Agenda**
1. Reports
1. [Executive Director reports](https://www.christiantranshumanism.org/reports/membership)
2. [Treasurer reports](https://www.christiantranshumanism.org/reports/treasurer)
3. Organization report
2. New business?
- Current Board Membership
- Emily Redding (0) (Treasurer)
- Omar Reyes (3)
- Lorenzo Barberis Canonico (3) (Secretary)
- Micah Redding (3) (CEO)
- Martha Bucaram (1)
- Elias Kruger (1)
- Jonathan Gunnell (1)
- Mark Russell (1)
- Lincoln Cannon (2)
- Caleb Strom (2)
- MacKenzie Fisher (2)
- CTA Retreat
- Dates
1. Oct 27-29 *preferred :)
2. Oct 20 -22
3. Nov 3-5
- Cost
- $3000 lodging
- $1000 food
4. Existing Business
- Last month
- Micah talks about his experience running a science and faith class at his church
- it's been successfull enough that his church wants to scale up the effort
- It's helpful to talk about the history of (Francis Bacon & Royal Society) and current developments of science (how do we )
- It works when it's framed in terms of worship, as opposed aggrandizing ourselves
- Omar shares about how evangelicals react with diffidence of transhumanist concepts outside of their comfort zones
- Elias focuses on things that evoke "awe"
- Lincoln worries about the risks of compatilism
- We are not just about human progress but about human transformation

- Elias brings up that EACH is having a free retreat in Maryland in Sep -- might we worth advertising to CTA membership

- Community
- FB Moderation (Jonathan)
- No updates on this
- Public Sessions
- Lorenzo brings up how the board can figure out how to do at least a monthly podcast where we interview people
- Elias points us to how we need to moderate Zoom with doing a broadcast session
- Jonathan reccomends crowdsourcing questions beforehand
- Micah reccomends prompting guests to use headsets to improve audio quality
- CTA-MTA
- joint conference?
- Content
- Confession (Caleb)
- Course (Jonathan)
- Advocacy
- specific topics?

- **References:**
1. [Board Dashboard](https://github.com/christian-transhumanism/board/blob/main/board.md)
2. Records & [Board Minutes](https://github.com/christian-transhumanism/board)
1. [Minutes in Github](https://github.com/christian-transhumanism/board)
2. [Minutes in Google Drive](https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7GmjSbYZdUdZHlmYzZkS0VYOUE)
3. [Email discussions](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/board-of-the-cta)
3. [Bylaws](https://github.com/christian-transhumanism/bylaws)
4. Reports
1. [Executive Director reports](https://www.christiantranshumanism.org/reports/membership)
2. [Treasurer reports](https://www.christiantranshumanism.org/reports/treasurer)
5. Communication & Events
1. [CTA Events Calendar](https://www.christiantranshumanism.org/calendar)
2. [Google Hangouts](https://meet.google.com/vbv-ztvv-icw) (defunct)
3. [Zoom Meeting (current)](https://www.christiantranshumanism.org/zoom)
6. Wiki & Content
1. View: [wiki.christiantranshumanism.org](https://wiki.christiantranshumanism.org)
2. Edit: [wiki @ Roam](https://roamresearch.com/#/app/christiantranshumanism)