S4 12: Thinking Critically for the Love of God With Kathy Gibbens
The Strong Women Podcast
Sarah Stonestreet
2.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Did you have formal logic in school? I didn't. As Kathy Gibbens was teaching her kids logic, she learned the importance of thinking clearly and logically herself. She recognized how helpful it is to have categories that bring order to confusing slogans and conversations. Amid the ramped-up rhetoric of 2020, Kathy launched a podcast to help train those of us who have never formally learned logic, so that we can learn not what to think but how to think. She joins me today to tell us her story and to walk us through a few of the common fallacies that people make when forming and defending their views.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Strong Women podcast, where we explore the beautifully diverse ways God invites and equips women to participate in his story. |
| 0:16.0 | We're here to encourage one another as we step out of the shallow definitions of what it means to be a woman |
| 0:22.4 | and into the flourishing life that comes when we walk out our design. I'm so glad you're here. |
| 0:30.0 | Okay, welcome to the Strong Women podcast. My guest today is Kathy Gibbons. And Kathy has a podcast |
| 0:35.9 | called Filter It Through a Brain Cell, which is all about, |
| 0:39.0 | I'm going to use her tagline. I'm going to try to say it just like her. She says, I'm not trying |
| 0:43.4 | to teach you what to think. I'm trying to teach you how to think. Did I say it like you? I kind of |
| 0:49.6 | did, didn't I? Yes. So I'm so glad that Kathy is with us today. One of the things I love about her story that we're going to dive into is that you saw a need. You didn't have logic growing up, right? No. And that's what this podcast is about. It's about talking about logic and then helping you think clearly because that's what logic does I didn't |
| 1:12.3 | have logic either my kids are taking logic and it blows my mind how much it helps you think well |
| 1:20.6 | I want to say one more thing before we jump into our conversation we have a live podcast audience |
| 1:27.1 | say hello audience into our conversation, we have a live podcast audience. Say hello, audience. We're in Colorado Springs |
| 1:32.9 | today, my hometown, and actually Kathy's hometown. So we're so excited to have a group of listeners |
| 1:38.9 | and now friends with us. So Kathy, thanks for coming. Thank you. Thank you for having me. I'm super excited to be here. |
| 1:45.6 | Yeah. Before we jump in, I want to hear a little bit more about you. Tell us what season of life |
| 1:51.2 | you're in and what fills your days. Yeah, so I am in this season of life. We have one daughter, |
| 1:56.7 | my husband and I, and she is almost 16. I'm a homeschooling mom. So that is most of my days. |
| 2:03.4 | I have a podcast. My husband also runs a business out of her home that I help him with. |
| 2:08.3 | And that is most of my days. That's good. Yeah. As you know, when you're in the season of kids, |
| 2:14.4 | I feel like the other day just this last week I drove seven |
| 2:19.7 | hours in one day just here in town driving my daughter around to this and all the moms are nodding |
| 2:25.5 | their heads right because that's what we do so when we say what do I do to fill my day drive my daughter |
| 2:29.7 | around yes I am with you on that and it's I, I call this time, this season of life with teenagers, |
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