Anne Smith's Journal, 1933-1939
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Release : 1998-01-01
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ISBN : 9781885803238
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ISBN : 9781885803238
Author : Dick B.
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Page : 160 pages
File Size : 20,49 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Alcoholism
ISBN : 9781885803016
Author : Dick B.
Publisher : Good Book Publishing Company
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 20,36 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781885803245
Dick B.'s second great discovery concerned the contents of the spiritual journal that Anne Ripley Smith had kept, shared, and used to teach Bill W., other AAs, and their families the underlying principles of A.A. The notebook lay unnoticed by historians and AAs alike even though it held the key to what early A.A. was really like--as related by the lady who was there as teacher, founder, and recorder. Dick B. is a writer, historian, Bible student, retired attorney, and active recovered member of A.A. He regards the Anne Smith discovery as perhaps the greatest of his historical finds and subjects in helping AAs to recover today.
Author : Dick B.
Publisher : Good Book Publishing Company
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 23,82 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781885803276
Dick B. is a writer, historian, Bible student, retired attorney, and active recovered member of A.A. He and his son Ken devoted many years to researching the role, life, writings, and contributions of Rev.Samuel M. Shoemaker to Alcoholics Anonymous. The quest took Dick B. to Shoemaker's churches in Pittsburgh and New York, to the Episcopal Church Archives in Austin, Texas, to Hartford Seminary, to Princeton University, and to the family and friends of this great Episcopal rector and preacher. In all, Dick B. has published 33 books on the history of early A.A.
Author : Dick B.
Publisher : Good Book Publishing Company
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 24,72 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781885803283
Dick B. is a writer, historian, Bible student, retired attorney, and recovered AA who has sponsored more than 100 men in their recovery and is actively involved in the fellowship. He has devoted 18 years to researching, reporting, publishing and disseminating materials on the spiritual roots of Alcoholics Anonymous. He is regarded as the leading historian on A.A. history today and has published 33 titles on the subject.
Author : Dick B.
Publisher : Good Book Publishing Company
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,25 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781885803306
Ever since Dick B. began publishing titles on the biblical roots and successes of early AAs, hundreds and hundreds have contacted him asking how they might form groups today with principles and practices like those of the early Akron A.A. Christian Fellowship. This book provides the details of the early program and how and why AAs and 12 Steppers can use the same program today in groups and meetings of their own choosing
Author : Dick B.
Publisher : Good Book Publishing Company
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 25,95 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781885803269
The most exhaustive bibliography (with brief summaries) of all the books known to have been read and recommended for spiritual growth by early AAs in Akron and on the East Coast.
Author : Dick B.
Publisher : Good Book Publishing Company
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 43,90 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781885803078
Dick B. is today regarded as the leading A.A. historian. He is a writer, Bible student, retired attorney, and active recovered member of the A.A. fellowship. He has brought to the history table: (1) His strong belief in the Creator, Christianity, and the Bible as the main source book for truth. (2) His long and fervent work with newcomers in helping them to overcome their alcoholism with the power of God. (3) His talents in writing and research that emerged from his work at the University of California where he received a Phi Beta Kappa key, his editorship of the Stanford Law Review, and his vigorous practice in writing and presenting legal briefs before many many courts. This mid-point treatise had been followed by and added up to 33 A.A. history titles so far. This book is foundational.
Author : Dick B.
Publisher : Good Book Publishing Company
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 29,25 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781885803948
Dick B.'s latest exploration of, and report on the solid evidence that early AAs were cured of alcoholism and said so for the first decade after their founding. This title tells HOW. It explains the many reports of religious healings through the ages, the many in or observers of A.A. who proved that they were cured, the myths about God, alcoholism, and "no cure," and the key origins, roots, and elements of the early Akron Christian Fellowship where the cures occurred. A book for believers who know God's power and want to know how it was applied in the healing of alcoholism by A.A. pioneers
Author : Dick B.
Publisher : Good Book Publishing Company
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 19,14 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781885803986
The much-awaited work of A.A. Historian Dick B. on the origins of each of the Twelve Steps. First and foremost a history of each step. How each of A.A.'s co-founders contributed to each of the Steps. It looks at the original Akron A.A. program which had no "Steps" and took its basic ideas from the Bible and its principles and practices primarily from the United Christian Endeavor Movement of Dr. Bob's youth. Then--source by source--it looks at each Step as it was impacted upon by a particular contributor. The Bible, Oxford Group, Rev. Sam Shoemaker, Dr. Bob's wife Anne Smith, the so-called "Six Steps, then the other sources. This book is an historical study of the roots of each Step; and it can be used for individual and group study of the Steps in a very meaningful way.It is also a guide. A guide to understanding, and a guide to taking each Step. It also shows you how to take the Steps exactly as directed in A.A.'s Big Book. It suggests how you might look at each Step in terms of the contributions to that Step's lanugage and meaning by each of its sources. Finally, it provides Christians and other students with a means of considering, learning, and "taking" each of the Steps in light of that Step's biblical and historical roots--with the Big Book, Bible, and history at hand.When you are through, you will have a perspective of the real spiritual utility of the Twelve Steps in a believer's world, despite the secularization and universalism that are diluting all Twelve Step programs and the language used in connection with the Steps. For example, "God as we understood Him" historically and biblically means Almighty God, the Creator, as He is understood by the newcomer at the time of taking Steps 3 and 11. So too "powerless" in Step 1 is presented in its historical context ("I was licked") rather than in some puzzling linquistic context, seldom understood or unraveled.You'll know and guide the taking of the Twelve Steps as they were intended to be understood and as you never did before.