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 years of Alcoholics Anonymous - The Language of the Rebellion Dogs Publishing looks at the cultural and historical significance of this year's focus on underrepresented populations and how Black, Indigenous, People of Colour, along with youth, women, LGBTQIA+ members, nerodivergent, agnostic, atheist and freethinking members offer a broader, mo re inclusive voice of what is AA and how anyone seeking sobriety can find a community of like-minded AA's to answer questions, listen and share their journey with together. 

From Rebellion Dogs Publishing, Joe C participated in and recorded “One Big Tent” on his mobile device. This, we share with you today. 

Rebellion Dogs Publishing hosted a merch tent in SOBER CITY and outdoor compendium to Vancouver 2025 with food trucks, merchants, recovery travel, books, T-shirts, and other fellowships. Beside our tent were ACA (Adult Children of Alcoholics) and as well as . Inside our tent was Sedona-best friend of Rebellion Dogs, Jay Stinnett, who, along with Jeanette and others, produced the brand new “Conscious Contact,” the first documentary about Bill W in fifteen years, focusing on his constant thirst for mental, emotional, or spiritual connection. In this new movie, we learn that late in life, Bill W. was a student of Transcendental Meditation. We meet the young hippy who was Bill's guru in 1969. Jay and Jeannette were selling links to the movie, hoodies and T-shirts. 

https://billwconsciouscontact.com/ 

Speaking of AA history, Tom Adams MSW & Joy Jones' A Marriage that Changed the World: Lois and Bill Wilson and the Addiction Recovery Movement, also came out this year and was on display and starting conversations in the Rebellion Dogs tent. I recall chatting with one shopper, flipping through the pages and talking about how this book is refreshing, is that it's about Lois and Bill - as two equals - not writing women out of the meaningful turns of history. “Imagine,” I said to the reader. “If Lois and Bill had not or could not have worked it out, what would you and I be doing this weekend?”

Andy C, this term's chair of the International Conference of Lawyers in AA, is a prolific writers that had books for readers: Gems, More Gems, and Still More Gems. Yes, there is another on its way. Andy has also written Closing Arguments for Lawyers with alcohol use disorder, struggling with the prospects of sobriety. 

Rebellion Dogs had some offers of our own. Beyond Belief: Agnostic Musings for 12 Step Life, all but sold out (THANK YOU). The ear-torn ones not suitable for sale, along with all other leftovers in our booth, were divided as gifts to a Vancouver Recovery Club House + several women's treatment centres. I stopped by the 

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Weigh in: 

Are you a freethinker inside a 12-step fellowship? Or are you a believer, curious or skeptical of a no-God approach?

Is cooperation between AA as a whole and secular AA within our membership essential to AA's well-being? 

Does it surprise you that some of those who attend freethinkers/secular AA meetings are religious? First, as there are closet-atheist in mainstream AA, how could we know how many secular AA members believe in Gods? But many who attend say that they have a worldview that includes the supernatural (sometimes they call it God), but AA's (The Big Book) and the Steps, represent one person's view, Bill W's view on god and he interacts with earthlings. For some believers, exploring faith is best done elsewhere; AA is practical and something to share, but faith is more a private or separate matter. 

What could AA as a whole, or secular AA meetings, do to better help people who think maybe they have a drinking problem? 

How can AA and all of our special composition groups collaborate, for outreach to the public and professionals, and work towards a narrative about AA that resonates with more people in need? 

Comments and experiences are welcome -join the chat. AA and all our special composition groups collaborate on