The Underground Railroad
By bob k. My father Maury was of the World War II generation. Luckily for me, his military service did not take him outside of Canada, as many who crossed the ocean did not...
Category: History – Modern
Secularization and AA
By Dean W In my recent essay, Religion and AA, I used William E. Paden’s book Religious Worlds: A Comparative Study of Religion (1988) to show that despite the common claim that AA is...
AA Meeting Guide
By Roger C Want to find an AA meeting? Want to find a secular AA meeting? Well, it’s easy these days. You can find them on your mobile device. All you have to do...
Non-Religious Identities and AA Participation
By Zach Munro The emergence of an organized network of secular AA groups has coincided with a recent turn in the sociology of religion into an increasing interest into a sociology of non-religion. The...
Working the Twelve Steps of NA… Without the “God Part”
By Don M I have been an avid reader of AA Agnostica for several years now and even attended the Toronto ICSAA conference in 2018. Yet I have also been a committed member of...
Religion and AA
By Dean W For about twenty-five years I was your average, traditional AA member. Then over about five years I gradually became an agnostic AA member. In 2018 I helped start an agnostic group,...
From 0 to 20 Secular AA Groups in Ontario
By Roger C Toronto’s Beyond Belief Agnostics & Freethinkers is the oldest and still active secular AA group in Canada. It held its first meeting on September 24th, 2009 at the Ontario Institute of...
The One and Only Kool-Aid
Accept NO Substitutes By Bobby F. Beach According to extreme Big Book Thumpers (and which ones exactly AREN’T extreme?), the ONLY path to permanent sobriety for the “real alcoholicTM” is through the diligent practice...
Secular AA Pamphlets
By Roger C Over the years, a small number of secular AA members, groups and organizations have created pamphlets. Why have more pamphlets not been printed and shared? Well, partly because it’s complicated work....
Pacific Northwest Secular AA Conference
By Ralph B We are excited about hosting a regional Secular AA conference on May 16, 2020 in Langley, British Columbia. We are actively working on an agenda for our conference. So far, we...
life-j
By Roger C Our dear friend life-j passed away last month, on December 14. Below you will find a section with a bit of his biography and another section with a list of the...
The Rainbow Group
By bob k On Saturday, October 26 of last year, at the Alano Club in Oshawa, some courageous folks held the first ever LGBTQ-friendly AA meeting in the Durham region. It’s called, appropriately enough,...
Arizona Secular AA Conference
Introduction By Ralph B Our Many Paths secular meeting in Langley, BC is planning for a regional conference May 16, 2020. The Arizona Secular AA conference gave Brad and me an opportunity to do...
ICSAA 2020: The Science of Alcoholism and Recovery
The Conference was rescheduled for 2021. By Gregg O. What causes some of us to become alcoholics? Can it be predicted? Can anything be done about it? What should I tell my family? Are...
