Blog - Kevin Timpe

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…

Podcast & Radio Interviews

Is Evil Necessary In God’s World?

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

Podcast & Radio Interviews

Why is Sin?

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

Philosophy Podcast & Radio Interviews

Has God Settled The Future?

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

22 Advocacy Talks & Lectures

Dear Jesus, Just Make Them Shut Up (Real Life Church, 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

Philosophy Talks & Lectures

Virtue and Transformation

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