Steps 8 and 9
This is a chapter from the pioneering book: The Alternative Twelve Steps: A Secular Guide to Recovery. It was originally written by two women, Martha Cleveland and Arlys G., and published in 1991. As valuable today as...
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An Atheist Speaks Out
By E. L. from Vermont. This article was first printed in the AA Grapevine in May, 1962. Copyright © The AA Grapevine. I AM an alcoholic and an atheist. I am addressing this to...
Quadrants of Knowledge
By Joe C. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no...
Prayer At Meetings: A World View
Many thanks to Nick H, one of the founders of Children of Chaos, an agnostic group in Austin, Texas. Nick found this article about a decade ago on a website, Sober Times, that no...
An Atheist at Alcoholics Anonymous
By Frank B. I am crunched tight in the fetal position, whimpering pitifully on a piss-stained carpet covered with a layer of crushed plastic Wild Oak Cider bottles. I have ended pretty much every...
My Faithlessness: The Atheist Way Through AA
Marya Hornbacher’s latest book, Waiting: A Nonbeliever’s Higher Power, which was reviewed on this site by John M, explores what spirituality can mean to the recovering person who does not believe in God. By...
