Open Up
February 2020
| Tough Times
A doorknob for a Higher Power? Some people just laugh at this, but one member thinks there’s a reason it might help someone
Look for the Gems
April 2014
How old-timers taught him to mine his Big Book for the jewels that really shine
An Inside Job
May 2011
An inmate gets the tools from AA to be a worker among workers at a prison factory
More ups than downs
May 2011
A prank shows her the futility of her rage while working on the Fifth Step
The Clock Is Running
July 1988
A Sometimes Painful Concoction
July 1988
Mixing belief and unbelief in a search for a faith that works
Fifth Step Meetings
March 1968
Small groups. . .laying it on the line with each other. Nothing held back. . .
CARRY THE MESSAGE PROJECT
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