Never Fear Needed Change
By Joe C. As the Christian calendar rolled over to 2012, another AA member asked me why I thought AA was no longer growing. Like me, he remembers the 1970s and 1980s when perpetual...
Author: Roger
The Courts, AA and Religion
By Linda R. Inside AA, one hears members frequently repeat the well-known phrase “AA is spiritual, not religious.” AA takes pride in saying it’s not religious. But what do outsiders, such as the court...
U of T Student Attends We Agnostics Meeting
Talia Gordon is Features Editor at the University of Toronto’s independent student press, The Newspaper. She prepared this article on agnostics in AA for “the boozepaper,” an edition of the paper printed at the...
The Willow Tree Bark
By Frank M. What follows are the reflections of an agnostic in LA on how the program of AA works. The reflections first address the orthodox theory of the program, which requires a belief...
Another Agnostic Group Ousted
By Roger C. In the rooms of AA – A third agnostic AA group has been expelled by Intergroup in Toronto. On April 24, Widening Our Gateway, which had been a member of the Greater Toronto...
Perspective of a Caring Christian
“The inability of many people to understand persons not having a carbon copy of their own stories is surprising.” By Rick A. Do I make it easier or harder for members of AA who...
What I Am Not
By Joe C. My name is Joe and I am an alcoholic and a proud member of AA. Step Two is stated, restated and defined several different ways: Came to believe that a Power...
Prayer At Meetings: A World View
Many thanks to Nick H, one of the founders of Children of Chaos, an agnostic group in Austin, Texas. Nick found this article about a decade ago on a website, Sober Times, that no...
Jim Burwell
By Linda R. Jim Burwell’s contribution to Alcoholics Anonymous is truly significant and second only to that of AA’s two co-founders, Bill Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith. Jim is credited with adoption of A.A.’s Third...
Heathens, Spies, Websites, Water-boarding & Carrot Cake
By Bob K. Chapter 4 of the Big Book, We Agnostics, is less than satisfying for many non-believers. Six months ago I went undercover so that I might investigate these devious agnostic creatures. It...
Intergroup Votes Against Re-Listing Agnostic Groups
On Tuesday (March 27, 2012) the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) Intergroup voted 59 to 19 against including two agnostic AA groups on its meeting list (hard copy and online) and giving them a voice at Intergroup meetings. The...
An Atheist at Alcoholics Anonymous
By Frank B. I am crunched tight in the fetal position, whimpering pitifully on a piss-stained carpet covered with a layer of crushed plastic Wild Oak Cider bottles. I have ended pretty much every...
The Historical Role of Intergroups in AA
By Linda R. A fellowship without rules and regulations Bill Wilson, AA’s co-founder, wrote this in the July 1946 Grapevine: So long as there is the slightest interest in sobriety, the most unmoral, the...
Father of We Agnostics Dies
Charlie Polacheck was the co-founder of the first AA meeting ever to be called “We Agnostics” in Los Angeles, California, in 1980. He achieved another first when, in 2001, he launched another “We Agnostics” meeting,...
