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..."
If there is one thing that you shouldn’t do as a teacher, it is belittle students. They are still learning to express themselves, to develop complex ideas and how to test them. Despite knowing that, I couldn’t help but laugh when Scott, a nice but lazy teen, complained about the essay I had assigned him.
My Chinese parents are not tigers. They did not rage when I brought home poor grades; they did not resort to corporal punishment, except on the truly rare occasion.
“I’m your father - if I tell you to eat nails, you eat nails” – a close translation of a phrase my father would use on me time and time again during our disagreements...
