Staying Sober Without God – Practical Step Three
AA Version: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him. Practical Version: Committed to a lifestyle of recovery, focusing only on what...
Category: History – Modern
Celebrating Ten Years: Canada’s Oldest Secular AA Group
By Roger C. Beyond Belief Agnostics and Freethinkers AA Group met for the first time at 6:30 PM on September 24th, 2009 in Room 2-298 at the University of Toronto (Ontario Institute of Studies...
My New Home in Alcoholics Anonymous
By Diane I I never intended or wanted to be an alcoholic or even a person who drank too much. I was actually afraid of alcohol in high school and didn’t start to drink...
Staying Sober Without God – Practical Step One
AA Version: Admitted we were powerless over alcohol – that our lives had become unmanageable. Practical Version: Admitted we were caught in a self-destructive cycle and currently lacked the tools to stop it. The...
The Role of the Secular AA Board
By Sam E Secular AA Member and Secular AA Inc. Board Chair Mandate and Purpose The mandate (purpose(s) and goal(s)) of the Board is to carry out our mission and vision: Mission Statement: “Our...
An Inspiring SOAAR
By John S On September 7, 2019, I attended the second biennial Secular Ontario AA Roundup (SOAAR) held at the First Unitarian Church in Hamilton. Having now been home for a week, I’ve had...
The Secular Ontario AA Roundup
Register now! And come with a carpool of friends! By Roger C The second SOAAR will be held in Hamilton. SOAAR? What the heck is that? It stands for Secular Ontario Alcoholics Anonymous Roundup....
Evolution of a Secular Meeting
By Ralph B. History The Many Paths to Spirituality meeting was started on Sunday August 28, 2016, in Langley, British Columbia. It was launched by me and Lorrie K. I had picked up a...
The Purpose of AA Agnostica
By Roger C This week AA Agnostica turned into an eight year old website! And a dynamic and busy site it truly is: in all, counting today’s post, 522 articles have been published. That’s...
Atheist nurse’s fight against mandatory AA will go before B.C. Human Rights Tribunal
By Bethany Lindsay Originally posted on CBC News on June 12, 2019 A B.C. nurse who lost his job when he refused to attend a 12-step program for addiction will get a chance to...
“Spiritual, Not Religious” – The Hollow Claim of Alcoholics Anonymous
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” – Aldous Huxley By Paul W. Introduction As an organization, Alcoholics Anonymous has long claimed to be, “spiritual, not religious.” Admittedly, this is the intent...
Secular Ontario AA Roundup
SOAAR 2019 WIDENING THE GATEWAY By Murray J. What is SOAAR 2019 you might ask? And what is “Widening The Gateway?” They are the Secular Ontario AA Roundup and the theme for the event....
We Are Diversity
Being a part of the LGBTQ+ family, we face many unique and distinct challenges. Our rates of drug addiction are estimated to be somewhere in the neighbourhood of 20-30%, versus 5-10% for the general...
What is AA?
By Roger C. Let’s go simple with the answer to this question. Fellowship We can start with the first sentence of the AA Preamble published in 1947 in the Grapevine magazine: Alcoholics Anonymous is...
