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The Impact of Zoom on Secular AA

By: Nina C. – Hamilton We Agnostics Zoom’s impact on Secular AA has been significant, one of the few benefits of the lockdown during Covid. On March 17, 2020, a state of emergency was...

The Journey… So Far

By Murray J. If life is a journey then a part of that journey is recovery from addiction for those so affected. When I crashed and burned in the early 1990s I struggled like...

THE LORD’S PRAYER – OH, LORDY!!

By bob k. Before There Was AA The founder of the Oxford Group – a Christian evangelical movement that gave birth to AA – Frank Nathaniel Daniel Buchman began his life in the small...

Breaking Barriers at SOAAR 2025 

The founder of Alcoholics Anonymous Bill W. spoke at the 1953 General Service Conference on variations in the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, commenting “The more we insist on strict conformity with these Steps...

My Home Group

By Murray J. This article is being written in support of my secular group. I call my AA home the Beyond Belief Suburban West Group in Mississauga Ontario. How did I get here? My...

Sober for Fifteen Years

By Roger C. I recently celebrated being sober for fifteen years! I drank for forty years, from the age of twenty to the age of sixty. And that was awful. It ruined a marriage...

Loneliness vs aloneness

By Andy F Loneliness and aloneness: What’s the difference? As a newcomer, I kept hearing about the differences between loneliness and aloneness. In AA, drunk or sober, a pervasive and consuming loneliness is considered...

How One Secular AA Group Got Started

By Jason W. When I attended my first AA meeting in 1987 in an attempt to lessen the consequences of my 2nd DUI I was shocked at all the “god stuff”. It was on...

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