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For Those Who Care podcast

This summer, Allison and I were on our dear friend RuthAnn's podcast about caregiving, For Those Who Care. It ended up being a long two-day conversation that RuthAnn broke down into five separate episodes of the podcast. I've collected all five episodes here with brief…

Kevin TimpeJuly 28, 2025

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Ableism in the Academy Resources

Talks from the Ableism in the Academy Workshop: Books:Dolmage, Academic Ableism (available here as a free PDF)Brown, Lived Experiences of Ableism in Academia: Strategies for Inclusion in Higher EducationBrown and Leigh (eds), Ableism in Academia: Theorising Experiences of Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses in Higher EducationMcMaster…

Kevin TimpeSeptember 22, 2024

22 Advocacy Podcast & Radio Interviews Talks & Lectures

Autism Awareness and the Church

I was recently on the Faith Unaltered podcast to talk about autism. Tyler, the host, asked some really good questions and I was pleased with the discussion. There was worthwhile stuff we didn't get to, so at some point in the future there may be…

Kevin TimpeSeptember 20, 2024

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Papers & Presentations Talks & Lectures

Religious Freedom, Disability Discrimination, and Civic Virtue

I was a visiting scholar at the Civil Rights and Civic Virtues Society at Auburn University at Montgomery this past summer. My presentation was “Religious Freedom, Disability Discrimination, and Civic Virtue.” A recording of that presentation can be watched on YouTube here.

Kevin TimpeJuly 23, 2024

Papers & Presentations Talks & Lectures

Can We Flourish Together When Some are Left Out?

I was asked to give a public talk for the 2024 CICW Disability and Ministry Workshop. The title of that talk is "Can We Flourish Together When Some are Let Out? Intellectual Disability and Care in Our Churches." A recording of that presentation can be…

Kevin TimpeJune 30, 2024

22 Advocacy

Preferential option for the weak, poor, and disabled

I've noted before (for instance, here and here) about how ableist metaphors and assumptions find their way into what churches say, sing, and affirm in their liturgies. Such language reflects what Amos Yong calls ‘normate biases’–"the unexamined prejudices that non-disabled people have toward disabilities and…

Kevin TimpeNovember 8, 2022

Papers & Presentations Talks & Lectures

NASSP

Conference handout here. Longer draft paper here (please do not cite or circulate without permission).

Kevin TimpeJuly 12, 2022

22 Advocacy

Learn from autistics

One of the unfortunate things about how parents usually receive diagnoses for their autistic children is that almost all of the resources they're given are about rather than by autistic people. This is especially problematic for folks who don't know autistic adults. While doctors, therapists,…

Kevin TimpeMay 9, 2022

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Articles & Essays Ethics Papers & Presentations Philosophy Talks & Lectures

Anger and Moral Struggle in Light of Systemic Injustice

The pandemic has forced another conference for me online. I'm supposed to be in Baltimore for the Eastern APA this week, given a paper as part of a session run by the Society for Philosophy of Emotion. But alas, I'll be giving my talk from…

Kevin TimpeJanuary 6, 2022

22 Advocacy

Autistic Exclusion at Churches

I've written and talked about how churches are often among the most unwelcoming places for disabled folks. HERE is an excellent post on how churches often make autistics feel unwelcome. While this may be unintentional, that doesn't mean it's not a problem. In my experience,…

Kevin TimpeAugust 20, 2021

Kevin Timpe

For Those Who Care podcast

Ableism in the Academy Resources

Autism Awareness and the Church

Religious Freedom, Disability Discrimination, and Civic Virtue

Can We Flourish Together When Some are Left Out?

Preferential option for the weak, poor, and disabled

NASSP

Learn from autistics

Anger and Moral Struggle in Light of Systemic Injustice

Autistic Exclusion at Churches

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