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...
Category: God, Religion & Prayer in AA
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...
Separation of Church and AA
By Don S. Des Moines We Agnostics I stopped praying in meetings years ago, but held hands while others did. I recently stopped doing that, too. I now remain seated during the prayer. This...
Tackling the Lord’s Prayer at the Grassroots Level
By Linda R. On this website there’s an article, Is AA Just for Christians?, that Barb C. wrote for the October 2003 Grapevine. In the article she discusses the use of the Christian Lord’s Prayer at the...
Our Father Who Art Not in Public Schools
By bob k The Professional Golfers’ Association of America (to its own embarrassment) had a “Caucasians Only” membership policy until 1962. Viewing a recent miniseries about the Kennedys reminded me that it took the...
A Proposal to Eliminate the Lord’s Prayer from AA Meetings
This is an excerpt of a document that was written on an Olympia manual typewriter and circulated by John L in New York City in 1976. There is nothing at all in this work...
