AA Book Club

  Saturday AA speaker/history post - AA Pioneer Ernie Gerrig (AA #78): Ernie Gerrig, AA #78    *** 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  

  Throwback Thursday AA history post - Former AA trustee Billy N on AA myths and misconceptions:    *** 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

  Tuesday AA literature post - from our online AA literature study guide at AABookClub.org , Big Book topics for study, meditation or use with a sponsee. For background on these topics, go to AA Book Club.org/Topics     More Efficient We constantly remind ourselves we are no longer running the show, humbly saying to ourselves many times each day "Thy will be done." We are then in much less danger of excitement, fear, anger, worry, self-pity, or foolish decisions. We become much more efficient. We do not tire so easily, for we are not burning up energy foolishly as we did when we were trying to arrange life to suit ourselves. It works—it really does. (Page 87-88) Spiritual Diseases Selfishness—self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles. Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate. Sometimes they hurt us, seemingly without provocation, but we invariably fi

  Saturday AA speaker post - Mickey B., "His Funniest Talk ever":    

  Throwback Thursday AA history post - AA historian Glenn Chestnutt on Sgt Bill Swegan and the first military alcoholism treatment facility (1948):    *** 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 134-136: [D]uring March and April 1937, Bill's relationship with the local Oxford Group began to deteriorate at an alarming rate. That spring, Wilson discovered the alcoholics at the Calvary Mission had been forbidden to attend the weekly meetings at his home in Brooklyn and had been told they could not visit the Wilson house for dinner. Worse than this, he learned that word was spreading throughout the congregation saying the Wilsons were "not maximum," meaning they were not sufficiently committed to the Oxford Group program. This is perhaps the strongest criticism that could be leveled against a Group member without directly accusing them of sin. The end came when an associate pastor at Calvary Episcopal Church delivered a Sunday morning sermon directed against the "divergent work" of a "secret, ashamed sub-group" within the congregation; a clear and caustic indictment of Bill Wilson and the w

  Saturday AA speaker/history post - Dr. Jack Norris, 27 year Class A Alcoholics Anonymous Trustee:        *** 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

  Throwback Thursday AA History link - Danny G. on The Oxford Group:   Danny G. on The Oxford Group    *** 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  

  Tuesday AA literature post - from our online AA literature study guide at AABookClub.org , an index of common terms used in the Big Book and Twelve and Twelve, with citations: Common Terms/Ideas in the Big Book and 12&12  *** 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

  Saturday AA speaker post - Gene D., funny talk "The Definition of an Alcoholic":    

  Throwback Thursday AA history post - Dr. Bob's Grapevine articles:     Two Dr. Bob Grapevine articles  *** 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 Cleveland AA, home to historic AA Group #3, thoughts on Step Seven:   Cleveland Intergroup: thoughts on Step Seven     Twelve and Twelve: Step Seven  *** 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

 Saturday AA speaker/history post - Countess Feliela, author of Big Book story Stars Don't Fall:   Countess Feliela, "Stars Don't Fall" (DOS 1943)  *** 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