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The Only Faith You Need February 2004

      Danger, Construction Ahead March 2015

      A Core Of Love October 2007

      Spiritual Honesty April 1985

      Three Strikes, You’re In! March 2014

      I, Agnostic April 2011

      The Uncertainty Principle September 1995

      Continental Shift April 2010

       CHAPTER THREE

       One Among Many

      AA is a “we” program

      Out of the Closet March 2015

      I Got Out of the God Business January 1970

      Is There Room Enough in AA? October 1987

      An Atheist Asks August 2011

      Without a Higher Power January 2010

      Is “Agnostic” a Nasty Word? September 1969

      What Are the Requirements? October 2013

      Closet Atheist April 1978

       CHAPTER FOUR

       Group Life

      Participation in service is a key component of sobriety for many members

      Coincidentally Sober October 2016

      Open-minded October 2016

      An Atheist Lets Go June 1998

      A Larger Welcome November 1996

      A Few Words From an Atheist April 1985

      My Search October 2016

      Finding Our Way October 2012

       CHAPTER FIVE

       One Big Tent

      In AA, we are one

      Can an Atheist Find a Place in AA? June 1964

      Practice, But Don’t Preach April 1994

      We Share Common Ground October 2016

      Equal Time for Atheists September 1976

      Open-minded December 2013

      An Unsuspected Inner Resource February 2016

      One Big Tent January 2016

      No Worshipping For Me October 2016

      Spiritual Honesty December 2007

      God On Every Page October 2016

       Twelve Steps

       Twelve Traditions

       About AA and AA Grapevine

      Welcome

      “Newcomers are approaching AA at the rate often of thousands yearly. They represent almost every belief and attitude imaginable. We have atheists and agnostics. We have people of nearly every race, culture and religion. In AA we are supposed to be bound together in the kinship of a common suffering. Consequently, the full individual liberty to practice any creed or principle or therapy whatever should be a first consideration for us all. Let us not, therefore, pressure anyone with our individual or even our collective views. Let us instead accord each other the respect and love that is due to every human being as he tries to make his way toward the light. Let us always try to be inclusive rather than exclusive; let us remember that each alcoholic among us is a member of AA, so long as he or she so declares.”

      —Bill W., Grapevine, July 1965

      The stories in this book, originally published in Grapevine, represent the shared experience of AA members who are atheists, agnostics, freethinkers or nonbelievers, who have struggled with alcoholism, yet ultimately found a common solution in AA.

      Pushed to the edge of desperation by their inability to stop drinking, each finally has taken the plunge into AA—often as a last resort. Their entries into the program weren’t always graceful, as a number of the stories in this volume can attest. Yet once arrived, they generally found a warm welcome—something unexpected after years of drinking and despair.

      As each came to know more about AA and its spiritual program of recovery, deep reservations surfaced, with a sense that the Fellowship might not be for them.

      Chapter One explores some of these reservations and how members worked through them to keep the focus on sobriety—recognizing that without sobriety all would be lost. In the book’s first story, the writer of “The Transformation” asks a pivotal question often considered by many atheists and agnostics in AA: “Was a spiritual awakening necessary for lifelong sobriety? If I didn’t have one, was I going to drink again?” The experience shared in this chapter puts that notion to rest, as nonbelievers of varying experience share how they are able to work the program successfully, one day at a time, as reflected in the words of Bill M. in