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...
Author: Roger
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...
Creating a more approachable and desirable picture of recovery
By Dennis Kutzen Like most of us on this forum, I started my journey in traditional AA and then came to secular for the absence of a higher power and stuck around for the openness. ...
Forgiveness is not a solution, it’s dysfunctional
By Richard Clark Since 1939 we have been living with the twisted, religious idea that recovery has three principal components: staying sober, finding some version of ‘God’ which includes any watered-down declaration of higher...
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...
Bill Wilson’s Blind Spot: Faith, Fallacy, and the Enduring Power of the 12 Steps
By Jude, Bill Wilson’s founding vision for Alcoholics Anonymous remains a landmark achievement in the history of recovery movements — a rare fusion of practical psychology, moral philosophy, and spiritual action. His genius lay...
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...
The audio version of Twelve Steps for Agnostics
By Andy F. My name is Andy, and I am an alcoholic. I attended my first meeting in London on the 15th of May, 1984. I believe I was an alcoholic from my first...
The Real Objection to the Plain Language Bigga Booka
By Bobby Beach A small number of Facebook warriors continue their battle against the Plain Language Big Book. In many ways, they are (very much) like the folks bemoaning the old news that the...
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...
The Mistakes That Are Killing Alcoholics Anonymous
By bob k. After a slow start, the Jack Alexander article in the March 1st, 1941 edition of the Saturday Evening Post made AA a national institution. The newish mutual aid society quadrupled in...
