This post was originally published at The Prindle Post. With the 2016 presidential election looming, we’re inundated with a number of messages from both major political parties. Many of these messages invoke patriotism as a reason to support one particular party or candidate over another.…
Kevin TimpeFebruary 2, 2016
version 2; last modified 23 Nov 2015 1 You Cannot Simply Trust the School to Do What is Best It pains me to have to say this right up front, but I think it’s true. I’m not saying that the people at your child’s school…
Kevin TimpeNovember 23, 2015
This post was originally published on Claire Crisp's blog. I'm sitting in the waiting room while my seven-year-old son is in OT. My five-year-old daughter is sitting beside me, trying to learn to read. She’s sad because she doesn’t get to have therapy. Her reaction…
Kevin TimpeAugust 28, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_sVRAm8Q-U Fundamental Practices for Intellectual Formation: Explorations of the Habit of Humility Kevin Timpe, Northwest Nazarene University James Van Slyke, Fresno Pacific University Rebecca DeYong, Calvin College The Intellectual Humility Capstone Conference Catalina Island, California, USA Hosted by The Thrive Center for Human Development http://www.thethrivecenter.org…
Kevin TimpeJune 8, 2015
Recorded for the PBS show “Closer to Truth”: Assume that free will is real, not an illusion, and that the only reality is physical. How then could the will possibly be free? By what mechanism could human choice transcend the strong determinism of a closed…
Kevin TimpeMarch 14, 2015
Recorded for the PBS show “Closer to Truth”: Every religion thunders its day of reckoning. To examine God's judgment is to probe God's character and perhaps assess God's existence. If God does not exist, God's judgment may expose it. If God does exist, and assuming…
Kevin TimpeMarch 14, 2015
Recorded for the PBS show “Closer to Truth”: Did God Create Evil?Can God and the enormity of evil both exist? To theists, it's the problem of evil, which they struggle to resolve. To atheists, it's the argument from evil, which they wield like a sword.…
Kevin TimpeMarch 14, 2015
Recorded for the PBS show “Closer to Truth”: If we seek God, we cannot avoid the problem of evil. Can the enormity of evil ever be compatible with an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-good God? Couldn't God have created the world without such evil? A little evil,…
Kevin TimpeMarch 14, 2015
