In my almost four decades of attending AA meetings, I have been to some incredibly spiritually healthy meetings, and then...

From the “Learning to Love Well” blog series on the Twelve Traditions “The only requirement for A.A. membership is a...

Tonight, the man chairing the discussion meeting at my home group picked what I initially thought was a rather obscure...

From the "Learning to Love Well" blog series on the Twelve Traditions “Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery...

“Turn it over.” “Acceptance is the answer.” “More will be revealed.” “Just do the next right thing.” “Let go and...

I was sitting in my home group last night when a woman with solid sobriety said something that stopped me....

“Healing may give you a new life, but it’s gonna cost you your old one. Are you ready?” There’s a...

I was in a Big Book study tonight when someone asked a question I had never thought to ask. We were...

Last night, my sponsor and sponsor brothers gathered to read Bill Wilson’s “AA Tomorrow,” written for AA’s twenty-fifth anniversary in...

AA teaches us how to live without drinking. It doesn’t prevent our hearts from breaking. This has been a hard...

I’ve heard some version of this countless times in Alcoholics Anonymous: “I just need to accept it.” And sometimes that is exactly...

I’ve heard some version of this from newcomer sponsees more times than I can count: “I put down the bottle. I’m...

Spiritual Principle: Responsibility There is a bowl that sits in my home filled with loose change. Pennies. Nickels. Dimes. Quarters. Nothing...