August 7-9, 2026, in Ottawa, the 21st World Humanist Congress took place with a record crowd of 500+ from over 40 countries. 

A sociologist at the University of Waterloo (Canada), Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme, researches growing secularization, social change, and political sociology…

Rebellious Radio/Rebellion Dogs Podcast Episode 89

A fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, Dr. Trysh Tavis continues her academic focus on 20th-century U.S. cultural and literary history, with a particular emphasis on gender and popular culture. 

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Episode #84 features our long-awaited guest, Jamie Marich, PhD, in conversation with Mary C and Joe C of Rebellion Dogs Radio.

Dr Jamie's latest collaboration, released in the Fall of 2025, Queering EMDR Therapy. 

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing…

 As is tradition, every five years, tens of thousands of AA members, friends, and family gather in a North American city. 2025's theme celebrates 90 years of Alcoholics Anonymous - The Language of The Heart. The 2025 theme celebrates 90…

As a lead up to the 2025 Vancouver AA World Convention, we feature some of the previous world convention AA We Agnostics panels and group sharing. 

In Minneapolis, 2000, we get to know participants from New York City Agnostics, Vancouver…

The AA World Convention is a quinquennial (every five years) gathering from different cities that of different towns. The San Diego AA International Convention occurred June 29 to July 2, 1995.  The theme of the convention was "AA Everywhere—Anywhere."

AA…

Dr. Joe Nowinski's body of work comes from working in the trenches—not from any ivory tower. Episode 77 of Rebellion Dogs Radio looks at a run-of-the-mill problem in early recovery that doesn’t get enough ink: if we are together in…

The Plain Language Big Book: is this a compendium to ye' olde book or a re-write in modern language?Referred

What’s Different?

• The first 164 pages are now 122 pages – by simplifying the language.
• More “gender-balanced” – e.g. jaywalker is…

Following Recovery Day Savannah May 25th, 2024 and ahead of Secular AA Roundup Langley B.C. July 13th, and ICSAA (International Conference of Secular AA) September 20-22 in Orlando, I'm talking about CHIME with team-Emotional Sobriety. Allan couldn't make it, so…

January 29th 2024 AA Grapevine Podcast Season 6, Episode 5 is called “Sober Since Disco.” Rebellion Dogs Publishing's Joe C talk about the importance of special composition group including groups for young people, atheists/agnostics, Black, Indigenous, People of Color, Women's…

We look at history—why? Isn’t this a contemporary, or even future gazing look at recovery and addiction? Well yes and yes. Yuval Noah Harari, PhD author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind says, “History is not the study of…

It was the Fall of 2019, Writing the Big Book: The Creation of AA by William Schaberg was about to be published and Joe C sat down with the author to talk about the soon-to-be-unveiled book born of eleven years…

In 1972 Bill Wilson was dead and AA was learning to live sans-founder. In Episode 72, The Secret Diaries of Bill W by bob k bring him back for another lap around the track. We spend, well pretty much the…

We have the author of We Sober Agnostics as our guest talking about his journey in recovery, what he has to offer in terms of The Survival Guide for Agnostics, Atheists And Non-Believers in 12-Step Programs.  Our musical contribution…

Meet Clinical Psychologist at Greater Manchester West NHS Mental Health Foundation Trust, Mani Mehdikhani.

Mani is one of AA Great Britain’s non-alcoholic trustees on their General Service Board. Among other duties, Mani and his committee prepared the quinquennial AA membership…

With or Without God: the latest Alcoholics Anonymous Membership Survey from Great Britain identifies how many members are religious vs. secular. 

Episode 69 of Rebellion Dogs Radio  looks at our more enlightened understanding of AA members, at least…

Rebellion Dog Radio (addiction/mental health and recovery) EPISODE 68 features our guest Carl Erik Fisher, Columbia University Psychiatrist, host of Flourishing After Addiction podcast, and author of THE URGE: OUR HISTORY of ADDICTION.

Our musical feature…

Alcoholics Anonymous starts the year—January 1, 2022—in public controversy:

TRANSCRIPT (Enjoy in PDF reading format)

"The way our ‘worthy’ alcoholics have sometimes tried to judge the ‘less worthy’ is, as we look back on it, rather comical…

Heard Around the Rooms:

"We don't care if you're from Yale or jail, here." Jim Burwell (March 23, 1898 - September 8, 1974) "Action is the magic word; you can't get goosed by the spirit if you don't get off…