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What The Group Says

February 2024 | Getting Through Tough Times

Outvoted

February 2024 | Getting Through Tough Times
A proposed change at her Step study meeting became a valuable lesson in group conscience

Wacky women

February 2023 | Making Amends
She was outvoted. Everyone liked the new meeting name but her. And it only took 10 years to change her mind!

A Loving Guide

February 2022 | Getting Through Tough Times
A lifelong atheist shares how he participates in his AA group’s decisions

Speaking up

February 2021 | Sponsorship
After much work in sobriety, she now has courage and a voice. Tradition Two helps show her the way

Second Tradition Checklist

November 2020 | Our Twelve Traditions
He was going to save AA. Someone had to do it. A member recalls AA’s early days before the Traditions were written

Having our say

February 2019 | Stories by Our Longtime Members
After their treasury went missing, a group had to hold a vote. Luckily, they’d just had an inventory

Breaking new ground

February 2015
Digging up experience on trusted servants and the many ways they form our group conscience.

One Hot Texas Summer

February 2014
Controversies may come and go, but hopefully not the members

Feed Them and They Will Come

February 2013
A group’s hunger to help their meeting grow gives them food for thought

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