AA Book Club

Throwback Thursday AA history post - Sandy B on AA history and Step Three:    *** On June 10, the editors of this blog founded the AA Book Club  Facebook group dedicated solely to AA literature. ** For the time being, this is a PUBLIC GROUP ** However, it is possible to post anonymously, especially from a laptop or desktop. To join this Club and post your favourite passages and read/comment on others' posts, please join us by clicking HERE

  From our online AA literature study guide at AABookClub.org , Big Book topics for discussion, meditation or use with a sponsee. For background on the origins of these topics, go to AA Book Club.org/topics . Pause, Take it Easy, Pray for Help and Guidance Here are thousands of men and women, worldly indeed. They flatly declare that since they have come to believe in a Power greater than themselves, to take a certain attitude toward that Power, and to do certain simple things, there has been a revolutionary change in their way of living and thinking. In the face of collapse and despair, in the face of the total failure of their human resources, they found that a new power, peace, happiness, and sense of direction flowed into them. This happened soon after they wholeheartedly met a few simple requirements. (Page 50) Logic is great stuff. We liked it. We still like it. It is not by chance we were given the power to reason, to examine the evidence of our senses, and to draw concl...

  Saturday AA speaker post - Irish Annie (Ann P), "Her Great AA Recovery Talk":    

  Throwback Thursday AA history post - Jay S. on the deification of Bill W.: Recovery Speakers: Jay S on the Deification of Bill W    *** On June 10, the editors of this blog founded the AA Book Club  Facebook group dedicated solely to AA literature. ** For the time being, this is a PUBLIC GROUP ** However, it is possible to post anonymously, especially from a laptop or desktop. To join this Club and post your favourite passages and read/comment on others' posts, please join us by clicking  Here

  From William Schaberg's writing The Big Book, Pages 132-133: Bill Wilson and the Oxford Group Bill Wilson had started out in early 1935 with a similarly strong connection to the New York Oxford Group, but his experiences were strikingly different from those of the people in Akron. While a vocal minority in Ohio actively embraced these new members, the New York chapter wanted little or nothing to do with the drunks Bill was regularly bringing into their meetings. It was a strained relationship from the very start, setting Wilson and the New York Oxford Group on a completely different trajectory from the one on Akron. Having left Towns Hospital for the lest time, Bill, "constantly went to Oxford Group meetings" and he soon became a member of one of the smaller 'teams' of men who regularly met and sat quietly as they listened for "the guidance of God for each one." Curiously, Oxford Group guidance was rarely directed toward the one receiving it, but rathe...

  Saturday AA speaker/history post - David B., author of Gratitude In Action (DOS 1944): David B, author of BB story Gratitude In Action ** Beginning June 10, the AA Book Club began a Facebook group of the same name dedicated solely to AA literature. To join this Club and post your favourite passages and read/comment on others' posts, please join us by scanning this QR code: 

  Throwback Thursday AA history post - early 1940's Philadelphia pamphlet introducing AA to newcomers: Philadelphia early 1940's Introductory pamphlet    ***   On June 10, the editors of this blog founded the AA Book Club  Facebook group dedicated solely to AA literature. ** For the time being, this is a PUBLIC GROUP ** To join this Club and post your favourite passages and read/comment on others' posts, please join us by scanning this QR code:

Tuesday AA literature post - From our online AA literature study guide at AABookClub.org , an analysis of the Twelve Concepts: Twelve Concepts study guide  and...  Keith D on the Twelve Concepts For World Service: On June 10, the editors of this blog founded the AA Book Club  Facebook group dedicated solely to AA literature. ** For the time being, this is a PUBLIC GROUP ** To join this Club and post your favourite passages and read/comment on others' posts, please join us by scanning this QR code: 

  Saturday AA speaker post - Cheryl from Aberdeen, NC (2018):    

  Throwback Thursday AA history link - Pat O. on the Emmanuel Movement:   Pat O. on The Emmanuel Movement  

Tuesday AA literature post - From Cleveland AA, home to historic AA Group #3, thoughts on Step Six:   Cleveland Intergroup thoughts on Step Six   Twelve and Twelve: Step Six      

 Saturday speaker/history post - Texas AA pioneer and 'Ebby's Sponsor', Searcy W. tells his story:    

  Throwback Thursday AA History post - Mr. X and Alcoholics Anonymous, a sermon delivered in 1939 about Clarence S and the early Cleveland AA group: Mr. X and Alcoholics Anonymous