No Fanfare, No Foofaraw
August 1982
By:
W. H.
| Manhattan, New York
Tradition 11 - Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films
Attraction vs. Promotion
May 1977
By:
B. L.
| Manhattan, New York
Our job is to make the AA way of life so highly attractive that others will want it
Give Me Liberty!
October 1976
By:
B. L.
| Manhattan, New York
In AA we demand - But that doesn't give us the right to push others around
The Ninth Concept
July 1972
<emphasis type="italic">Bill W.'s</emphasis> Twelve Concepts for World Service
A Power Beyond the Mind
April 1972
By:
B. M.
| Saratoga, California
The Steps were translated into terms that I, an atheist, could understand
The Hidden Assassin
January 1972
By:
J. W.
| Key West, Florida
Beware the enemy that lurks beneath the surface of our conscious selves
6th Tradition
August 1970
By:
B. L.
| Manhattan, New York
An AA group ought never endorse, finance or lend the AA name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
I Got Out of the God Business
January 1970
By:
R. S.
| Vancouver, British Columbia
This self-proclaimed unbeliever has a three-point program that works for him and, he hopes, might help others - The Search for Spiritual Experience
My Name Is Bertha. . .
March 1969
By:
B. D.
| Louisville, Kentucky
They tell me that I killed a man. . .
Alcoholism--divine Malady?
May 1968
By:
P. H.
How do alcoholism and AA look to others? Here is a view of AA as a <emphasis type="underline">layman's movement</emphasis> that cuts across all religions
Bottom of the Ninth
June 2011
By:
Susan B.
Recovery from alcoholism brings this father and daughter closer after many years of difficulties
About the Author
May 1966
By:
Robert K. Greenleaf
This article begins a series presentation of an especially thoughtful way to look at life-with-a-purpose. It is in terms of six decisions we can try to make and a seventh "big overarching one.
Again at the Crossroads
November 1961
By:
Bill W.
The substance of Bill's remarks at the closing session of AA's 1961 General Service Conference
AA in Norway
January 1958
A.A.'s Country-wide News Circuit
May 1946
July 8, 1944
March 1946
Healing Words
April 2024
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By:
Mary R.
| Snellville, Georgia
This nurse thought she was too smart for AA, but after reading the book she found her match
No More Free Rides
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Joey R.
| Whitehorse, Yukon
The first year of sobriety a free ride? It didn’t turn out that way
Carpenter, welder, snake-handler, drunk
August 2018
By:
Pig Farmer George
| Yakima, Washington
An old-timer writes of hard work and drinking and how sharing a donut can make his day
The Gift of Sharing
December 2014
By:
Rick T.
| Falcon Heights, Minnesota
The words he spoke to his AA group that December opened their hearts forever
Then Came Susan and Dottie
August 2012
By:
Laura P.
| Elkton, Maryland
She tried to stop drinking but couldn't, until two nice ladies from AA came over