What If We Built It… And No One Came?
By bob k There are some parallels existing between the LGBTQ+ and the secular communities in Alcoholics Anonymous. Both are outliers in a sense, or in multiple senses perhaps. Many in the traditional recovery...
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Atheist nurse wins fight to end mandatory AA meetings
B.C. health authority settles human rights complaint with Byron Wood, who lost his job after quitting AA. By Bethany Lindsay CBC News · Posted: Dec 11, 2019 Health-care professionals who work in Vancouver-area hospitals...
About Being Here
Introduction By Roger C. life-j is the author of a book published 12 days ago on Amazon, About Being Here. And he is my friend. We have known each other since early in 2013....
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...
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...
A Report on the Survey – The 2020 International AA Convention
By Thomas B. Commencing on May 3rd and continuing through May 13th, AA Agnostica and AA Beyond Belief surveyed the Secular AA community in regards to the upcoming 85th AA International Convention to be...
Secular AA at the 2020 International AA Convention in Detroit
By John S. AA Beyond Belief Since 1945, the International AA Convention has been held every five years, and the next convention will be held in Detroit, Michigan from July 2nd through July 5th,...
Survey Results – Literature for We Agnostics?
By Roger C Introduction Should it re-publish “The ‘God” Word” (it has the permission of AA in Britain) here in North America? Should it develop its own pamphlet for and by non-theists in AA?...
Why Critique the Big Book?
By Paul W. To begin, let’s define “critique.” It is a critical examination or discussion; an examination of the merits or faults of a literary work. In my critiques of the Big Book, I...
Conclusion: Who We Are
One of the favorite quotes I came across in early recovery was the following: “It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks...
Lord’s Prayer Threatened – Fundies go Wild
By Bob K. I belong to an old-fashioned online Yahoo AA group. The format is that every Sunday a member chairs and posts a topic, and group members have a week to respond with...
Chapter 3: The “God Bit”
The “God” part in the 12 Steps comes from Bill Wilson. The rest of it, “as we understood Him”, was Jim Burwell’s contribution. But let’s start at the beginning… AA’s soon-to-be co-founders met on...
Beyond Belief Agnostics and Freethinkers
In January of this year the discrimination against agnostic groups by Intergroup in the Toronto area ended as a result of a settlement mediated by the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal. In the very next...
