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God Likes to Watch: The Blaming and Shaming of Purity Culture | Seth Andrews| Weekly Sunday Gathering • Baker Ripley, 6500 Rookin, Houston, TX
Debunking Christianity | John Loftus | Weekly Sunday Gathering • Baker Ripley, 6500 Rookin St, Houston, TX
Dr Caleb W. Lack | Music : Hank Woji | Weekly Sunday Gathering • Baker Ripley, 6500 Rookin St, Houston, TX
About Houston Oasis
Houston Oasis is a secular community that meets weekly on Sunday mornings here to enjoy fascinating talks, live music, and conversation.
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
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From The Blog
Considering Friendship (With a Few Thoughts from Aristotle)
Since I was young, I've enjoyed reading about the ancient Greeks. While still a pious evangelical, I adored Plato's ethereal and confusing philosophical system.
Heaven's Not the Great Beyond
For this installment of the Oasis blog, we offer a discussion of a song lyric provided by long-time Oasis member, Gary Taylor, with an analysis by TC Smythe. (TC's favorite lines are in bold text.) We hope that this topic might inspire our members to create more songs and anthems with a humanist twist.
Hate Cannot Drive Out Hate; Only Love Can Do That
The 55th anniversary, this August, of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, presents a worthy occasion for reflection and remembrance...