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- AA Origins and History - by Submitted on Feb 16, 2010 from Richard Burns, J.D. (pen name Dick B.),AA Origins and History The YMCA, Vermont’s “Great Awakening of 1875,” A.A.’s Founders Dick B. © 2010 Anonymous. All rights reserved The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) played an important, but relatively unknown, role in the lives of A.A. cofounders Bill W. and Dr. ...
Views: 1855(2 votes) - Where Did Early A.A. Come From? - by Submitted on Feb 15, 2010 from Richard Burns, J.D. (pen name Dick B.),Where Did A.A. Come From? Dick B. © 2010 Anonymous. All rights reserved. The Variety of Stories I’ll venture a guess: When most of us come into the rooms of A.A., we probably don’t hear, or learn, or even care where A.A. came from. Lots of us are sick, confused, frightened, and more ...
Views: 1566(1 vote) - Seeking Guidance from God in Today's A.A.? - by Submitted on Feb 03, 2010 from Richard Burns, J.D. (pen name Dick B.),Seeking Guidance from God in Today's A.A.? “Go with the Winners” and Follow the Original Akron A.A. “Christian Fellowship” Program Dick B. © 2010 Anonymous. All rights reserved The following verses from the Book of James show specifically why and how to seek the wisdom of God. As A.A. ...
Views: 2610(2 votes) - Helping A Christian To Begin Recovery Today - by Submitted on Jan 23, 2010 from Richard Burns, J.D. (pen name Dick B.),Helping A Christian To Begin Recovery Today Dick B. © 2010 Anonymous. All rights reserved What is this newcomer like? The condition of most alcoholics who are being propelled toward recovery today is complex, life-threatening, confusing, frightening, and often misunderstood. Here ...
Views: 1746 - Christian A.A. The Runner's Bible Devotional - by Submitted on Jan 13, 2010 from Richard Burns, J.D. (pen name Dick B.),Christian A.A. Days – The Runner’s Bible Devotional Dick B. © 2010 Anonymous. All rights reserved In the early A.A. days, the days of the Alcoholics Anonymous Christian Fellowship that Bill W. and Dr. Bob founded in June of 1935, morning quiet time, the use of daily devotionals, and ...
Views: 2898(1 vote) - Alcoholics Anonymous and Recovery Awakenings for 2010 - by Submitted on Dec 07, 2009 from Richard Burns, J.D. (pen name Dick B.),All across the nation, and even the world, there are encouraging expressions of an A.A. and a recovery approach that was all but lost for perhaps 50 years. New evidence such as rosters kept by early AAs, the contents of Anne Smith's Journal, the last major talks of Dr. Bob and Bill, the ...
Views: 2885(2 votes) - Alcoholics Anonymous as I Have Seen It - by Submitted on Nov 06, 2009 from Richard Burns, J.D. (pen name Dick B.),Alcoholics Anonymous as I Have Seen It A Welcome, Needed, Haven of Love, Service, and General Tolerance By Dick B. © 2009 Anonymous. All rights reserved When I First Entered the Rooms on April 23, 1986 When I first entered the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous on April 23, 1986, I was ...
Views: 921(1 vote) - Dick B.'s A.A. Story - by Submitted on Nov 02, 2008 from Richard Burns, J.D. (pen name Dick B.),I was born in Stockton, California in 1925. I was the only child of two loving parents. My dad was a successful securities salesman. My mother was a concert pianist and a daily student of the Bible. My dad had quit smoking before I was born, and neither parent gave evidence of any problem with ...
Views: 2041 - A.A,'s "Big Book," Rev. Sam Shoemaker, and Bill W. - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2008 from Richard Burns, J.D. (pen name Dick B.),A.A.’s “Big Book,” Rev. Sam Shoemaker, and Bill W. By Dick B. © 2008 Anonymous. All rights reserved Lois Wilson’s Observation as to Sam Shoemaker’s Big Book Role The biography of Lois Wilson states: “Dr. Shoemaker was to play a significant role in ...
Views: 3592 - Filling the A.A. History Gap - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2008 from Richard Burns, J.D. (pen name Dick B.),Dick B.. © 2008 Anonymous. About 1990, I began looking for the evidence of A.A. history, and I looked in many parts of the United States and England. I found that nobody had unearthed and reported the books in Dr. Bob’s Library. Next, I found that nobody had researched or described ...
Views: 1669 - National Recovery Month And Vermont Opportunity - by Submitted on Aug 16, 2008 from Richard Burns, J.D. (pen name Dick B.),Taking Note of September 2008 as National Recovery Month and How We Shall Celebrate It a New Way By Dick B. • September 2008 is National Recovery Month. Governments, treatment facilities, therapists, and non-profits are asked to post proclamations and conduct media ...
Views: 1033 - Christians in A.A.? - by Submitted on Aug 16, 2008 from Richard Burns, J.D. (pen name Dick B.),Christians in A.A.? I don’t have any statistics! I don’t know of any statistics. And I’m not sure I care about any statistics that might exist. But I think it would be valuable if we knew for sure that, among the two-million members worldwide, the A.A. fellowship contains a ...
Views: 3852(2 votes) - A.A.'s Green Mountain Academy Boys - Bill and Bob - by Submitted on Jul 13, 2008 from Richard Burns, J.D. (pen name Dick B.),A.A.’s Green Mountain State Academy Boys Dr. Bob and Bill W. of Vermont Dick B. © 2008 by Anonymous. All rights reserved The Fruits of a Visit to Vermont to Learn More about A.A.’s Roots “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart ...
Views: 1516(1 vote) - I Like Alcoholics Anonymous - by Submitted on Jul 13, 2008 from Richard Burns, J.D. (pen name Dick B.),"God as We Understood Him" An Alleged Compromise That Opened the Door My Own Experience At my first A.A. meeting, I was delighted. Friendliness, laughter, concern, suggestions. All came pouring toward me at the "Wednesday Night What It’s Like Now" meeting--later to become my Home ...
Views: 1480 - God as We Understood Him - by Submitted on Jul 13, 2008 from Richard Burns, J.D. (pen name Dick B.),"God as We Understood Him" An Alleged Compromise That Opened the Door By Dick B My Own Experience At my first A.A. meeting, I was delighted. Friendliness, laughter, concern, suggestions. All came pouring toward me at the "Wednesday Night What It’s Like Now" meeting--later to become my ...
Views: 2122(1 vote) - Anne Ripley Smith - Alcoholics Anonymous - Refresher - by Submitted on Jul 13, 2008 from Richard Burns, J.D. (pen name Dick B.),Why Bill W. Called Dr. Bob’s Wife Anne the “Mother of A.A.” Some Revealing and Significant Quotes about Anne Smith Bill W. said: Anne was the wife of Dr. Bob, cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous. She was, quite literally, the mother of our first group, Akron Number One. Her ...
Views: 2350(1 vote) - Oxford Group - Alcoholics Anonymous - Refresher - by Submitted on Jul 13, 2008 from Richard Burns, J.D. (pen name Dick B.),It’s Time Once Again to Visit the Oxford Group and Alcoholics Anonymous There has been a resurgence of interest by AAs and 12-Step programs in the relationship of Oxford Group ideas and Alcoholics Anonymous principles, practices, and steps. My own title, The Oxford Group and Alcoholics ...
Views: 4209 - Healing The Alcoholic By The Power Of God - by Submitted on Jul 07, 2008 from Richard Burns, J.D. (pen name Dick B.),Healing the Alcoholic: The Creator, A.A., Believers, and Richard Peabody’s Erroneous, “No-Cure” Hypothesis Dick B. © 2008 by Anonymous. All rights reserved The Original Views and Statements of A.A. Founders and Pioneers about Cure of Alcoholism Bill Wilson stated ...
Views: 3999(1 vote) - Oxford Group Alcoholics Anonymous Refresher - by Submitted on Jul 07, 2008 from Richard Burns, J.D. (pen name Dick B.),Oxford Group – Alcoholics Anonymous – Refresher Dick B. © 2008 Anonymous. All rights reserved It’s Time Once Again to Visit the Oxford Group and Alcoholics Anonymous There has been a resurgence of interest by AAs and 12-Step programs in the relationship of Oxford Group ...
Views: 1565 - Bible - Alcoholics Anonymous - Refresher - by Submitted on Jul 07, 2008 from Richard Burns, J.D. (pen name Dick B.),Bible – Alcoholics Anonymous – Refresher Dick B. © 2008 Anonymous. All rights reserved What the Bible has to do with Alcoholics Anonymous What documented relationship does the Bible (which early AAs affectionately called the Good Book) bear to the basic text of Alcoholics ...
Views: 5306 - Bill W. Meets Dr. Bob And A.A. Is Founded - by Submitted on Feb 11, 2008 from Richard Burns, J.D. (pen name Dick B.),The story of A.A.’s founding, on June 10, 1935 at the home of Dr. Robert H. Smith and his wife Anne at 855 Ardmore Avenue in Akron, Ohio, has two separate, distinct, and very different roots. The first involves William Griffith Wilson (who is known to AAs as Bill W.). Bill was born and ...
Views: 4272 - A.A.'s Prince Of All Twelfth Steppers - by Submitted on Feb 11, 2008 from Richard Burns, J.D. (pen name Dick B.),What Is Our Real Purpose? Is A.A. a religion? Is it a medical treatment program? Bill Wilson cautioned AAs to remember that clergymen and physicians were the “experts”; and then cautioned that AAs were merely their assistants. Is A.A. today, then, still a Twelve-Step program where ...
Views: 1369 - A Persistent Voice For Christian Recovery Today - by Submitted on Feb 11, 2008 from Richard Burns, J.D. (pen name Dick B.),A Persistent Voice for Christian Recovery from Alcoholism Today - even in the 12 Step Fellowship to which I belong Dick B., 2008, http://www.dickb.com/index.shtml I’d like to have oodles of Christians know that I came into the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous almost twenty-two years ...
Views: 880 - A.A. Relapses, Successes, Cures - by Submitted on Jan 22, 2008 from Richard Burns, J.D. (pen name Dick B.),http://sponsortosponsor.com/dickb-notes.html This is a complete reproduction of my recent A.A. Relapses, Successes, and Cures. Please call it to the attention of those who wish to get a solid look at this subject. God Bless, Dick B.
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