Category: History – Modern

The post-millennium history of Alcoholics Anonymous.

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 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...

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...

Sobriety is a Team Sport

By Tom Barnum My exposure to alcohol has been lifelong and extensive. Every adult in my life drank significant amounts of alcohol with two exceptions. My paternal grandfather did not for his own religious...

Daily Reflections – by bob k.

February 16 Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. —Arthur Ashe 1943-1993 The advice from the great tennis player and civil rights activist applies particularly well in the world...

Secular AA

By Vince Hawkins What is Secular AA? Who is it for? What use is it? Is it a threat to traditional AA? It’s an odd thing to review your own book, but thanks to...

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