Kansas City Oasis

IT'S OASIS' FIVE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY! Doors open at 10:30 am for coffee and conversation. Sunday Gathering begins at 11 a.m. Childcare is provided. Everyone is welcome! Program ends at 12:30 p.m. Featured Speaker: Seth Andrews, "Not Everyone Who Disagrees With You Is Hitler" Musical Guest: Ernest James Zydeco (www.facebook.com/ejzydeco/) Community Moment: Carrah Quigley Seth Andrews, a video producer and former Christian broadcaster, now hosts www.thethinkingatheist.com, one of the most popular online atheist communities in the world. The Thinking Atheist is not a person. It is an icon encouraging all to reject faith and pursue reason and evidence. Seth has authored three...

Featured Speaker: Darrel Ray Musical Guest: Beau Bledsoe (www.facebook.com/beau.bledsoe) Community Moment: John Mueter About the speaker: Dr. Darrel W. Ray is author of "The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture" and "Sex and God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality," and is host of the Secular Sexuality podcast. He is also the founder and president of Recovering from Religion and director of the Secular Therapy Project. A psychologist for over 35 years and student of religion, he holds an MA in religion, a BA in sociology/anthropology and a doctorate in psychology. His activism runs the gamut, from protesting the...

Featured Speaker: Rowan Stewart Musical Guest: JJ Cantrell Community Moment: Lila Shaumeyer Rowan Stewart is the director of activism for The Kansas City Atheist Coalition and the community outreach manager for Kansas City Oasis. In 2009, he deconverted from fundamentalist Christianity and since then, spends his time speaking at churches, schools and secular forums about philosophy, atheism, and other secular issues. Doors open at 10:30 am for coffee and conversation. Sunday Gathering begins at 11 a.m. Childcare is provided. Everyone is welcome! Program ends at 12:30 p.m. *By participating in this event, you agree to abide by the Oasis Code...

At Kansas City Oasis our values are "People are more important than beliefs," "human hands solve human problems," and "meaning comes from making a difference." In that spirit, we partner with Micah Ministry to help feed and clothe those in need. The Micah Ministry is a charitable organization that seeks to help anyone, regardless of race, gender, religious (or nonreligious) affiliation, sex, sexual orientation, or any other trait – as long as they could use some help, the Micah Ministry is there to help them. The Micah Ministry operates in a way that’s a bit different from traditional support organizations....

Featured Speaker: Twyla Dell, Community Moment: TBA Musical Guest: Coleen Dieker Stories from our town make up a fabric of daring adventures and daunting work. Pioneers to the river bend built the town with wood in the 1820s. The next generation built the city with coal in the 1880s. The automobile came to Kansas City at the turn of the 20th century and gasoline helped it stretch out of city streets and create suburbs in the 1920s. The entire 20th century was about giving gasoline its head, so to speak, while we enjoyed its many gifts. Now the future has...

Doors open at 10:30 am for coffee and conversation. Sunday Gathering begins at 11 a.m. Childcare is provided. Everyone is welcome! Program ends at 12:30 p.m. Featured Speaker: Dr. Monique Johnston, "What Are the Humanities? Are the Humanities Still Valuable?" Musical Guest: TBA Community Moment: Rebecca Mosley What are the Humanities? Are the Humanities still valuable? This presentation will explain the initial development of Humanities Councils throughout the nation and highlight ways in which the Missouri Humanities Council is working statewide to interpret, document and share the rich history and heritage of Missouri. Current initiatives of the MHC include the...

Featured Speaker: Zachary Mallory Community Moment: Erica Batton Musical Guest: Aleia y Ryan Conversion Therapy is currently banned in 16 states and many states, including Missouri, have pending legislation to bring a ban to this discredited practice. Conversion Therapy is an attempt to change sexual orientation, gender expression or gender identity and is often aligned with religious practices. Zachary will share his experiences with conversion therapy and the abuse that was endured during in hopes to raise awareness about the dangers of the long-lasting effects that a survivor faces after conversion therapy. About the speaker: Zachary Mallory is an LGBTQ+...

We will be grilling out and partying with the veterans at St. Michael's, and we could use some help to make it a fun day for everyone. This will be a 'family picnic' kind of event, so feel free to bring your chairs, blankets, soccer balls and children. Kansas City Atheist Coalition will be providing the grilled meats, buns and drinks for the veterans and volunteers, we are expecting 150 people total. We will need games to play, side dishes, desserts and people to play the games. Please use this link to Sign Up Genius to note how you will...

Featured Speaker: Nate Brame, "Remember to Breathe" Community Moment: Jim Fiske Musical Guest: JJ Cantrell Nate has survived a brain surgery and seizure that people don’t typically live through. He was a chef for 10 years and now has started a coffee business. *By participating in this event, you agree to abide by the Oasis Code of Conduct (https://www.kcoasis.org/about-oasis/code-of-conduct/) Doors open at 10:30 am for coffee and conversation. Sunday Gathering begins at 11 a.m. Childcare is provided. Everyone is welcome! Program ends at 12:30 p.m.