Secular People in AA
By John S Back in December, I was contacted by a reporter who wanted me to help him with an article he was writing about secular people in AA. I don’t think he ever...
Tagged: Agnostics
The Challenges of 12 Step Recovery for Agnostics
By Andy F Going to my first AA meeting at the age of thirty was the best thing I ever did. I loved the fellowship from my very first meeting. I was someone who...
An Academic Analysis of Do Tell!
In 2018 a scholar based his doctoral dissertation, “Experiences of Atheists and Agnostics in Alcoholics Anonymous”, on the book Do Tell! Stories by Atheists and Agnostics in AA, published in 2015. Last month Brent...
Agnostics and the AA Program
By Witek D. We agnostics and atheistic members of AA are sometimes criticized for changing the content of the 12 Steps. It’s partly true, but we MUST do it! We have to do this...
Reshaping the AA Culture
AA needs to move beyond the canon of the Old Book, published in 1939. Will it? This is an article originally posted five years ago on AA Agnostica. It is the introduction to the...
One Big Tent
Review by Thomas B. A most auspicious event took place during the opening Panel of the recent third Biennial International Secular AA Conference that took place during August 24 through 26 in Toronto, Canada...
Most Americans believe in a higher power, but not always in the God of the Bible
by Yonat Shimron Originally published in the Washington Post, April 25, 2018 (RNS) — A new Pew Research survey finds that one-third of Americans — both those who say they believe in God and...
The First Secular AA Meeting in Canada
By Michael D. Around 2 or 3 am the morning of my 37th birthday – January 20, 1979 – I was in a serious car accident. Like many other alcoholics, I had reached a...
Conference Question – Literature for We Agnostics?
The Delegate for Southern California Area 05, Thomas B, is interested in your thoughts on the subject of “conference approved” literature for agnostics and atheists in AA. Both the re-publication of “The ‘God’ Word’...
Critique of Chapter 4 – We Agnostics
By Paul W. Allow me to set the stage, so to speak. I love Alcoholics Anonymous. I want AA to succeed and to continue its good work. I know that the secular AA groups...
Chapter 11: Conference-approved Literature
More than forty years ago, Ed and Paula, two members of an AA trustees Literature Sub-Committee, wrote that a pamphlet written by and for agnostics and atheists in AA was “needed to assure non-believers...
4 Ways Atheists and Agnostics Recover
By Kelly Fitzgerald Originally published on July 24, 2017 in The Recovery Village A common question among those trying to get sober, and those who are foreign to addiction and recovery is, how do...
Chapter 7: Agnostics and Human Rights
Let’s begin by looking at some dates of historical significance. May 31, 2011. Two agnostic AA groups, Beyond Belief and We Agnostics, are voted out of the Greater Toronto Area Intergroup (GTAI) and off...
Irreligion in the US: A Rising Tide
The Guardian 19 May 2017 For the first time, the number of Americans saying that the Bible is composed of “fables” by human beings has overtaken the number who say it is the literal...
