So we did it: 2020 virtual International Conference of Secular AA. How did we do? There were some tech glitches, and I will get to that. A virtual International gathering for atheists, agnostics and freethinkers on this scale is something…
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Sep 23 2020
October 2020 Rebellion Dogs Blog: New Ideas
New Ideas... Good for the individual, good for our society. Why are ideas hard to adopt and harder to sell?
October 2020: In this blog, First, a shout-out to the AA silent majority -…
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Aug 22 2020
Young AA Experiences Then and Now
What was AA really like and what’s AA like today? Dr. Earle, a 1955 Second Edition of Alcoholics Anonymous author reflects back, 40 years later, in the 1995 AA Grapevine. When his story first…
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Aug 6 2020
A 2020 look at AA's year in review: progressive and traditionalist baby-zoomers
This blog available in PDF: CLICK HERE
This just in:
- The latest insights and stats from AA General Service Conference.
- New studies about worldview that explain our recovery culture a little bit better.
- COVID-19 life finds doors…
May 5 2020
Knowing AA History: Spotlighting Barry L 
Many people had a hand in changing the course of Alcoholics Anonymous, and consequently, the entire peer-to-peer, mutual aid world. Some of these stories are lost or buried--not hidden from us, just so deep in archives that no one…
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Jan 31 2020
February 2020 Aftermath: Bill W's Sober Second Thought
Once every year or so, we look at the state of atheists/agnostics (and/or other underrepresented populations) in AA and the broader recovery community. I just read something—something I missed in a first go-around…
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May 4 2019
Have your say at AA's annual USA/Canada Business Meeting
Rebellion Dogs Blog - May 2019
Have your say at the 69th
General Service Conference of AA
Are you an AA member; a member of a group that…
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Mar 10 2019
Musings from San Francisco - March 2019 Rebellon Dogs Blog
The Program of Alcoholics Anonymous: Interpretive by Design
Just try to refute that membership in AA is based on individual interpretation of Tradition Three, “The only requirement for membership is a…
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Feb 12 2019
The future of "Suit Up and Show Up" in AA culture
“Suit up and show up!” Who’s heard this Circa 1958 AAism? The picture above is from the first International Conference of Young People in AA, Niagara Falls New York, 1958. Is business-wear the best way to represent AA from…
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Jul 7 2018
July 2018: Resentements Coffee Pots and new AA Meetings
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Our Summer Box 4-5-9: News and Notes from the General Service Office of A.A.[i] reports about 15,000 less AAs, year-over-year. Also, of us two million +/- members, we are spread between…
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May 4 2018
Best Way to Predict the Future is to Create It
Rebellion Dogs Blog, May 2018
Why Now?
With over 90% support of voting members, the 68th General Service Conference (2018), for USA/Canada, adopted and approved the pamphlet “The ‘God’ Word; Agnostics and Atheists…
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