Houston Oasis is a secular community that meets weekly on Sunday mornings here to enjoy fascinating talks, live music, and conversation. We are part of the Oasis Network of secular communities.
These five core values define the Oasis community:
People are more important than beliefs
Reality is known through reason
Meaning comes from making a difference
Human hands solve human problems
Be accepting and be accepted
Stories
"Being part of a community of people with similar values provides a great feeling of belonging..."
"I absolutely love knowing that I’ll do as much good as I can with this brief life, and when my time is done..."
"Oasis have given me a sense of community...for me, Oasis has made Houston home."
"...the intellectual honesty, diversity, positive attitude, and purpose...is unique."
"I love the live music and the talks are always interesting and cover such a wide range of topics and perspectives."
" Oasis brings an exposure to the diversity of other people’s lives not present before our attending..."
"I have always been surrounded in a deep Christian culture, though I realized I was no longer..."
What I love about this blog is the stories. I’m a bookworm, but serious reader or not, I believe the best introduction is always: “Let me tell you a story.”
When I think of King’s I have a Dream speech at the March on Washington, or his other stirring remarks about the power of truth and love to drive out hate, I also make sure to remember a poem by Bertolt Brecht...
"How are you doing? Do you need anything? Those questions still throw me back into the first hazy, grainy days after my husband, Bruce, died very suddenly November 22, 2017 from double pulmonary embolisms.
