Rebellion Dogs Publishing celebrates this 10th ANNIVERSARY 3rd PRINTING hardcover Beyond Belief: Agnostic Musings for 12 Step Life - for a limited time $29.90 + shipping. Buy a bunch for friends and save on shipping $. CLICK the PIC for get your copy or order a stash for holiday giving. This 3rd Printing includes a new PREFACE, updated links and hard cover options added to paperback and eBook offerings.
ALSO for holiday heathens, check out the Merch and silliness - a proud tradition of our recovery journey. Links to other resources: explore new ways to connect, read or listen to guest authors, professionals and peers with lived experience.
BRAND NEW - 2023 in review and homework for 2024 from AA - yes they want YOU to tell them: Re-write or Reify the BIG BOOK. Leave it as is, OR change it. PLUS the results from our latest Membership Survey. It's good… and bad, bad-light, I'd say, just needs some help from us. CLICK THE PIC for Rebellion Dogs Radio #75
From the vault, Episode 19 from 2015, still with that new-car smell… Slam Poetry and/or Punk Rock. Like a favorite song we enjoyed a second time around CLICK HERE
THE BIG NEWS!!! Now available: the 10th anniversary 3rd Printing of Beyond Belief Agnostic Musings for 12 Step Life
what's new about the 3rd edition?
It's been ten years since we published Beyond Belief (2013); change has happened. We have a new PREFACE, relating our experience of the last decade in the world of recovery. Corrections, hyperlinks and notes and census data has been updated. There are substantial changes inside the book, but some have judged a book by our cover and we listened. As well as the 29,000 eBook and paperback versions out there over the decade we now offer a HARDCOVER version. Some of you, seven years or more into daily readings have asked and now, you got it!
Order from us, or your favorite online or brick and mortar bookseller. Thank you everyone for your continued support, your recommendations to others and your friendship with Rebellion Dogs Publishing.
Read October's blog - the full 10th anniversary PREFACE CLICK HERE
Back together again: Coffee-talk with Writing the Big Book: The Creation of AA author, Bill Schaberg 4 years after the release of his book, Bill and Joe discuss what “more has been revealed” with some 12-step history, personal experiences and a look at AA meeting culture over the last six decades and what may become of 12-step life between now and the 100th anniversary of the book Alcoholics Anonymous. EPISODE 74
VISITORS to Rebellion Dogs. December 2023, top spots for visitors: Phoenix, Chicago, Toronto, Los Angeles, Seattle, Calgary, Montreal, Nashville, Minneapolis, Helsinki, Edmonton & Dallas, over 415 cities and regions have visited.
HOLIDAY rEbeLLIOn dOgS MERCH, because (some of) you asked for merch, now you have “Rebellion Dogs our every sip at first” coffee mugs, ha, ha, ha. T-shirts, hoodies plus these selections of drink-ware. Now something to sip from or wear while musing on daily reflections or being seen and heard at your local group or clubhouse. More of what you don't really need but sometimes we want - fridge magnets, throw pillows etc. CLICK the PIC and browse - great gift ideas; we are still in design mode if you have some good ideas.
NOW on YOUTUBE:
Survey Says: A look at 50 years of demographics and trends revealed from membership surveys from 1968 to 2022.
CLICK to watch the slides and listen.
PODCAST PIT-STOPS with JOE C. - we stopped by three fellow recovery podcasters (click to listen)
How many podcasts do you listen to? Is it like a meeting-on-demand, you can tune into for free anytime, any place? Maybe every home group should have a podcast, sharing member's unique stories or your group's meeting-after-the-meeting coffee talk.
Available on YOUTUBE on Herb K's site from our co-hosting 1/2 day workshop Saturday April 23, 2022. Our topic is Step Two and Three. An atheist and a Big Book-literalist discuss the secular, practical path to AA sobriety's legitimate equivalency to the spiritual/religious version.
INFO HERE Watch or Listen here on YOUTUBE
SECULAR AA Meetings on Demand: Listen to International Conference of Secular AA speakers and panels any time, anywhere CLICK HERE
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George Preston Recrration Centre, 20699 42 Avenue , Langley BC V3A 3B1
Beth H, Phoenix AZ, Dr Ray B, Vancouver and Joe C, Toronto + panels and discussion
$20 Canadian
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AA History: Growing in Understanding Group, Zoom ID 838 6045 3157 passcode TOGROWIN, Worldwide
From 1968 to the 2022 (soon to be released) AA Membership Survey in the USA we check our demographics for outreach to healthcare professionals and the general public. We also use the survey to take inventory of how we are doing: who is getting the help they need; who's being left behind. Looking at them collectively we can measure trends.
The Great Britain 2020 Membership Survey reveals two new talking points: How are AA members doing with the proliferation of Zoom (and other online) AA meetings? What do AA's really believe? Members answer if they believe in a higher power and how religious or secular they are.
This event is part of a series from the Growing in Understanding group.
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Free ZOOM event; help yourself to a program in several different time-zones ICSAA 2022 Program Oct 29 & 30 @ https://www.omagod.org/announcements
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this is "some of" the history of atheists and agnostics in AA. Secular AA has "widened AA's gateway" according to founders and "isn't REAL AA" according to fundamentalists. In this meeting we will take a historical look at gatherings: secular AA meetings, conferences and literature in AA.
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updated and revised history of secular AA: meetings and other gathering, the impact of Zoom, barriers and bridges, Secular AA: is it a different program or a different language?
Oct 7 2023
CHECK OUT 3rd PRINTING 10th anniversary BEYOND BELIEF.
READ OR DOWNLOAD OCTOBER 2023 BLOG IN PDF FORMAT
Maybe you are new around these parts—welcome.
Maybe you remember January 2013—thanks for sticking around.
Ten years ago, …
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Mar 27 2023
THE SECRET BOOKSHELF: Influences on AA’s creator that no one is talking about … until now.
Download/read PDF version HERE.
First of all, thank you Bob K; having interviewed Bob on Rebellion Dogs Radio about his historical fiction, The Secret…
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Mar 5 2023
Rebellion Dogs Blog March 2023
Emotional Sobriety, stewardship and service, the Twelve Traditions, what is the connection in the role of finding lasting, meaningful recovery?
Download or read as a PDF HERE
Inspired am I, by the March 2023 AA…
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Feb 2 2023
Oh Canada! Less people do spiritual stuff, like praying or turning to AA for help.
Read/print this February 2023 Blog in PDF
The 2021 Canada census data shows a transitioning diversity in our neighborhood (culturally/racially diverse Canada) and…
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Dec 24 2022
Can we end of pessimism in 2023?
Expectations lag behind outcome rates of recovery from addiction
Shake any family tree and one or two drunks fall out of it; that…
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Nov 29 2022
Read/download the PDF version of this blog, Remembering John Lauritsen: A Freethinker in AA
Professionals, and hopefully more people in recovery from substance use disorder, are discovering or re-discovering the practical lived experience offered in AA’s “little book,” Living…
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