The Michigan Disabilities Rights Coalition and Her Power are hosting a Disability Pride weekend for parents* of children with disabilities 26-28 April in Rothbury, MI (about an hour west of Grand Rapids.) Full information on the event can be found HERE. The facilitators for the…
Kevin TimpeMarch 26, 2019
I was invited to consult at local elementary school this morning. It's a school that was founded to be racially and economically diverse (not always the norm for here in Grand Rapids). The past few years, they've sought to also do better with respect to…
Kevin TimpeMarch 22, 2019
I'm teaching a course this semester on the theology of disability. We just wrapped up the part of the course where we look at historical figures (our primary text here was this wonderful collection). Yesterday we discussed the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer. I did an…
Kevin TimpeMarch 12, 2019
One of the things I talk about in Disability and Inclusive Communities is the demands on time that can come from disability: Another way that our communities are not welcoming to those with disabilities is time. This is particularly true given the frantic pace that…
Kevin TimpeMarch 5, 2019
As an academic, the publication of a book is sometimes anticlimactic. It's great to hold a physical copy, as it's a distillation of so much work. But other than that, there's often not much of a change once the book comes out. It can take…
Kevin TimpeMarch 4, 2019
I’ve been thinking a fair bit about justice and disability lately, both because of my scholarly work and because it is concerns about justice that motivate much of my advocacy work. Justice, most broadly, is the virtue that governs interpersonal interaction in terms of giving…
Kevin TimpeFebruary 13, 2019
(This past week, I flew down to OKC to, among other things, record some short videos about disability and the Church. Here's the text of one of those videos.)----- Just over 55 years ago, Martin Luther King remarked that “the most segregated hour of Christian…
Kevin TimpeFebruary 12, 2019
Some of the most common questions I’m asked are based versions of the following: I’m told that since our child isn’t on grade level, they can’t be in the general education setting. Is this true? The school equates having an IEP with pull-out instruction. Since…
Kevin TimpeDecember 19, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIE1kYqfKhE A film by Glass Darkly Films & Produced by The Center for Philosophy of Religion, University of Notre Dame.
Kevin TimpeJune 3, 2018
