Category: History – Modern

Chat

Our new chatroom!

By life-j. We are starting a chat room here on AA Agnostica! And launching it officially today! All are welcome to participate, of course. We want to be there “whenever anyone, anywhere reaches out...

Big Book

Big Bookism

By Don S. At a meeting recently, I heard a guy say: “You’ll hear a lot of crazy stuff in meetings. When you do, just ask them “‘Where is that in the Big Book?’”...

An AA Convention For We Agnostics

By Roger C Roger: Thank you Pam for agreeing to do this interview. You’re a member of the steering committee that is now hard at work planning a We Agnostics and Free Thinkers (WAFT)...

Girl Scouts

A Lesson for AA from our Betters

By Frank M. “You’ve got a higher power problem,” my old AA sponsor told me. It’s something he’d asserted on a number of occasions when the subject of God and the Steps and my...

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To thine own self be true

By Jude Core I’d like to let you all know that we have a fully formed agnostic AA group that meets every week on Sundays in South West London. It has been an interesting...

Transitive Woman

Megan D.

Megan D. and Charlie P. co-founded the first ever group to be called “We Agnostics” in California in 1980. This is an article she submitted to the AA Grapevine, but was never published. She...

Fireworks Year I

One Year Old!

By Roger C. It all began with an uncivil act. It was a thoughtless act without compassion or concern for the wellbeing of other women and men in the fellowship suffering from the same...

Seasons

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...

Charlie P

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,...

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