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Thank you for helping us make our 2017 conference a success! We had record attendance and wonderful speakers. We hope that you enjoyed your experience and plan on joining us next year and for our upcoming social later this year.

To help us make future conferences even better, please take just a couple minutes to fill out this short survey to share your thoughts about what went well and what we can do to improve.

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The Mormon Transhumanist Association is eager to announce the appointment of Jordan Roberts to the position of Chief Humanitarian Officer by Blaire Ostler, CEO of the Association. He was unanimously approved by the board of directors under the direction of Christopher Bradford, President of the Association.

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Members of the Mormon Transhumanist Association’s Provo, Utah Chapter recently completed a community service project that provided over 100 meals to the Food & Care Coalition of Provo.

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The Mormon Transhumanist Association thanks Dorothy Deasy for her service as Chief Humanitarian Officer. Dorothy served in this capacity from July 2015 through February 2017.

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March for Science is an effort comprised of dozens of independent, nonpartisan coordinators. Recent rhetoric has inspired them organize marches on Washington D.C. and in Satellite Marches across the country. It's mission statement is as follows:

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Guest Blogger: Gary Lee Parker

Sending out sparks of life light, glowing, spinning in the dark like a cosmic disco ball, like white hot arcs of electric night

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The Mormon Transhumanist Association is pleased to announce that this year's annual conference will take place on Saturday, 8 April 2017, at the Utah Valley Convention Center in Provo, Utah.

The theme of the conference is “Evolving Gods.” From its earliest beginnings, humanity has looked beyond itself, seeing in various deities its characteristics embodied to a superlative degree. Human conceptions of the divine have undergone dramatic shifts, from polytheistic contention for dominance between tribal deities, to notions of a god more powerful than all these, and eventually to the consigning of these tribal deities to oblivion as monotheism became predominant. Early Christians, Eastern Orthodox, and subsequent restorationist movements, like Mormonism, emphasized human divine potential through the process of theosis, deification, or divinization. Eastern religions taught the possibility of achieving unity with the divine community of enlightened beings.

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(Matthew 9:32-33)

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I see your God who has done everything already, and I see the Anti-Christ. Its message is that the work is done, or the work is permanently reserved for Him. Jesus accomplished His part, which, as it happens, was all that needed to be done.

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MTA Members & Friends,

2016 has been a year of change, including for the MTA. We had a successful conference in April that included the election of a new president of the MTA, Chris Bradford. We have a new member of the Board of Directors, Wendy Smith, and an expanded management group, including a new Chief Financial Officer, Drew Ostler, and a new Chief Marketing Officer, Caleb Jones. More recently, the MTA constitution was amended to allow for the election of a new CEO, Blaire Ostler. We are very excited about the expansion of our leadership team and have received an overwhelming amount of support from the association. Thank you!