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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
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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
The Dog Park: A Day at Oasis
The doggie daycare looked like heaven compared to my lawn which was full of brambles and weeds. Through the fence I could see a perfectly manicured yard, a little obstacle course for the hounds to run through, a doggie pool where a golden retriever shook his coat freely, with almost a wry smile only a happy puppy could give...
The Likelihood and Preciousness of Life
Until quite recently, it has been assumed by everyone literate in science that intelligent life, which I will refer to as Life As We Know It (LAWKI) is common in the cosmos. That proposition is becoming less likely with every scrap of new knowledge that we acquire.
The Ten Commandments: A Dialogue for Humanists and Christians
When an Alabama judge wanted to put a stone copy of the Ten Commandments in his courthouse he was asked to name them and could not. It reinforces my belief that we who do not believe in the Bible need to know it in order to have constructive conversations with those professing belief in its inerrancy. Here are a few of my thoughts on the Ten Commandments.