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
Song about autistic children’s experiences
I'm teaching a course on disability culture ("Disability Rights and Pride") this term. Our primary book is Eli Clare's Brilliant…
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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
Recorded for the PBS show “Closer to Truth”: 'Sin' is a term loaded with baggage. Different groups, mainly religious, use 'sin' to describe violations of the given order. Perpetrators of sin - 'sinners' - are punished in one form or another (in this life or…
Kevin TimpeMarch 14, 2015
Recorded for the PBS show “Closer to Truth”: Does God know all future events? Only if the future is in some real sense already determined. God, to be God, must know every true proposition, including all about the future. But if the future is truly…
Kevin TimpeMarch 14, 2015
So looking out I noticed there's a lot of NNU folks here, which is not a bad thing. But I'm going to probably surprise you in three ways. I will have to do first off. I'm not going to be the person up here screaming…
Kevin TimpeMarch 14, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQvpVcMcTu4 Virtue and Transformation - Becoming the Kind of People Oriented Towards Pursuing Truth, Community, and Service This is the first lecture in a series of four to commemorate the Centennial of Northwest Nazarene University. Dr. Kevin Timpe is a professor of Philosophy at NNU.…
Kevin TimpeNovember 21, 2013
