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..."
This blog is in response to a call out for Oasiens to submit an article for our community blog post. It’s not often that I draw a blank when seeking topics to write about. However, with this week’s blog that appears to be the case.
Dad and Irene, his first wife, grew up in Sylvester, TX, a small, dusty, West Texas town with no more than a few hundred people in the whole county. Dad never talked about Irene.
