Hallowed be the Big Book?
By Laurie A. The Preface to the fourth edition of the Big Book notes, “Because this book has become the basic text for our Society and has helped such large numbers of alcoholic men...
Category: History – Modern
The Impossible Becomes Possible
By Roger C. It was a something of a miracle, if I may be so bold as to use that word. Almost three hundred women and men gathered in Santa Monica, California, in early...
Workshops at the WAFT Convention
It was a very, very busy convention, the We Agnostics and Free Thinkers (WAFT) International AA Convention (IAAC) held in Santa Monica at the beginning of November, 2014. And it was rich and diverse...
We Agnostics and Atheists AA Convention – Day 3
Day 3 was the busy and energizing last day of the We Agnostics, Atheists and Free Thinkers (WAAFT) International Alcoholics Anonymous Convention (IAAC). To begin with, attendance had grown to almost three hundred women and men. And, besides more...
We Agnostics and Atheists AA Convention – Day 2
Day two – Friday, November 7 – of the Convention consisted of a number of panels and workshops, followed by a talk by the manager of the General Service Office (GSO), Phyllis H. What...
We Agnostics and Atheists AA Convention – Day 1
It began not with a whimper but a bang. Some two hundred delegates gathered on day one of a truly historical event: the first ever international convention for agnostics, atheists and freethinkers in Alcoholics...
The Loss of Love and Service of Jonathon Goley
By Dorothy H. The Unknown “Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.” ~ Claude Bernard To say that Saturday, October 18, 2014, was a stunning and shocking day...
Convention Fellowship Speakers
By Dorothy H. The Steering Committee of We Agnostics and Free Thinkers (WAFT) International AA Convention (IAAC) is thrilled to announce the speaker line-up for the convention beginning Thursday, November 6, 2014. The Fellowship Speakers are marvelous...
Atheist punished for rejecting 12 Step program gets $2 million
By Hemant Mehta Originally published on October 14, 2014 at The Friendly Atheist In February of 2007, after spending time in prison for drug possession, Barry A. Hazle Jr. was finally released on parole....
Together we can
by Joe C. Now what? August 13th and 17th AA Agnostica had a heart-felt discussion about the new pamphlet “Many Paths to Spirituality.” Now that we’ve had our say, what to do? For those...
The Road to Santa Monica
By Dorothy H. Voices The voices have come from near and far. There were the voices in Hermosa Beach, near Los Angeles, where attendees at a newly founded We Agnostics meeting greeted the news...
Three years old!
By Roger C. AA Agnostica is – on this day, June 15, 2014 – three years old! It has been, in so very many ways, a remarkable year. The keyword that jumps to mind...
The Resilience of Alcoholics Anonymous
By Bill White and Ernie Kurtz Attacking Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) and 12-step oriented addiction treatment has become a specialized industry with its own genre of literature, celebrity authors and speakers, single-focus websites, and promoted...
A Reverend at the Agnostic AA Convention
By Joe C. There is nothing surprising or unhealthy about the debate that we see about speakers, procedures and policies for this inaugural We Agnostics and Freethinkers International AA Convention (WAFT IAAC). Being the...
