An Academic Analysis of Do Tell!
Fifty Chosen Articles: Number Twenty-Five. The fifth of seven consecutive book reviews. Originally posted in August 2020. The recovery of the thirty authors (15 women and 15 men) in the book Do Tell! had...
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An AA Pamphlet for Agnostics – The 1980s
Fifty Chosen Articles: Number Ten. Originally posted in November 2013. Conference Approved Literature. “The greatest danger facing AA today (is)… prohibiting non-Conference approved literature, i.e., ‘banning books’.” The Manager of the AA General Service...
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...
Secular NA – Connecting Globally Amid a World in Crisis
by Michael E I am an addict, 71 years old and a little over 5 years clean. I am clean because of the Narcotics Anonymous program, and I am so very grateful for the...
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...
Do Tell! and One Big Tent – Two Books of Stories by AA Atheists
By Roger C. It all began four years ago. In September of 2014 an article was posted on AA Agnostica with the title A Grapevine Book for Atheists and Agnostics in AA. It was...
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...
Incoming!
Through heat, sand and sniper fire, their AA group kept them sober to show up and do their jobs By Eric C. Traverse City, Michigan, USA Copyright © AA Grapevine (October, 2017) Not only...
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...
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...
The Watering Down of AA
By Bobby Beach Not a New Thing On any given day, the AA world witnesses a remarkable volume of whining about the watering down of Alcoholics Anonymous. Various individuals, groups, and institutions comprise the...
