How It Works Without A God
By John B Can a drunk expect happiness to emerge from recovery? My answer would have been a resounding YES as I floated out of a 12 step oriented treatment episode on a pink...
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Privilege Lurks at the Heart of Recovery Movements
If we aren’t talking about the way the system works, and who gets crushed by the system, we aren’t actually talking about recovery. By Olivia Pennelle Published on December 23, 2019 on The Fix...
THUMPERTOWN THEATER PRESENTS… Bill and Bob Go to the Library
A Screenplay by Robert F. Beach The scene opens on a living room. The furnishings are clearly of high quality but from another era. The date is May 12 1935 and it’s Mother’s Day....
Why a Higher Power Isn’t Enough to Stay Sober
By Jeffrey Munn The author of Staying Sober Without God So, you’ve decided you don’t really believe in a “god” per se, but you’d like to choose one of our sleek, modern Higher Powers™...
What If We Built It… And No One Came?
By bob k There are some parallels existing between the LGBTQ+ and the secular communities in Alcoholics Anonymous. Both are outliers in a sense, or in multiple senses perhaps. Many in the traditional recovery...
Acknowledge Your Reality
By David Bohl The stoic philosophers predated the Serenity Prayer by hundreds of years with what has been adapted in English as the IDEA method. This is a method that employs wisdom and decision-making...
A Poem About My Higher Power
By Lena R This poem is dedicated to everyone who has been chastised for their atheism/agnosticism through thinly-veiled crosstalk. I hope it makes you smile! A Poem About My Higher Power If you want...
Sober a Long Time – Now What?
By Jeanine Bassett A few years ago, I perused the literature table at a local AA conference (HOWL in Hood River, Oregon). Noting the daily meditation books, many of which I’d been reading for...
It’s Not You, It’s Them: How Zealots Threaten Your Safety
By David Bohl It seems to me that now, more than ever, religion and religious beliefs have been at the forefront, infiltrating our lives, whether we like it or not. As a member and...
The Underground Railroad
By bob k. My father Maury was of the World War II generation. Luckily for me, his military service did not take him outside of Canada, as many who crossed the ocean did not...
Alcoholism vs. Addiction
How much do alcoholics and drug addicts really have in common? Our experts explain the similarities as well as the differences. By Kristen McGuiness Originally published on The Fix “When I first got sober,...
The AA Canon
We have to live today by what truth we can get today, and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. William James* By Dean W When I was a much younger man I served...
Why is the Big Book Sacred?
Sacred: Connected with God (or the gods) or dedicated to a religious purpose or deserving veneration. Cui Bono (to whom is it a benefit?) By Paul W. Prelude The Big Book, which is the...
Secularization and AA
By Dean W In my recent essay, Religion and AA, I used William E. Paden’s book Religious Worlds: A Comparative Study of Religion (1988) to show that despite the common claim that AA is...
