A Visit on Maui with Dick B. and Ken B. for A.A. History Brainstorming

We were delighted two days ago to receive a phone call from a certified Internal Medicine physician from Alaska who came to the Big Island for vacation. He is a Christian who has a deep understanding of medical and other aspects of alcoholism and addiction--particularly addiction. He has a host of ideas about how to work up a number of effective housing, treatment, and medical assistance facilities which are founded on Christian Recovery ideas--both in Alaska and in Maui.

Now we have an office at the County of Maui Salvation Army facility, where we do films, studies, interviews, meetings, and assessments. Because of the generosity of Sally, this office is provided free. And more and more we meet with people in the Islands and who are visiting the Islands; show great promise of being effective Christian recovery leaders, effective participants in International Christian Recovery Coalition; and want to assist us as reporters and content providers helping to define and disseminate the role that God, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Bible played in the origins, history, founding, original Christian A.A. Fellowship program of 1935 and its successes. And can play today.

In their realm of expertise, outreach, and experience.

Why this brief article? We would like those who are attracted to the Hawaiian Islands for residence, business, golf, vacations, cruises, scenery, and recreation to feel free to contact us and arrange to meet with us here on Maui in our well stocked AA history and Christian recovery resources. And brainstorm. We realized after yesterday that this is far more likely, far more practical, and far more feasible economically than traveling to the many spots on the Mainland and in other countries who want us to come there for conferences, summits, seminars, and personal networking.

We want to hear their story. We want to hear what they are doing in the Christian recovery field. We want to know what their Christian recovery work plans and visions are. We want to hear their needs, their wish lists, and their questions. Then we enjoy their company, "train the trainers," and are blessed by the visit. It has been happening for a good many years now.


In His Service, Dick B. 808 874 4876; dickb@dickb.com

PS: Just so you know the scope of the previous visits to Maui, we have had leaders from Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona, Kaui, Oahu, the Island of Hawaii, the East Coast, Canada, Mexico, Washington, and some other areas.

What Earlly AA Said the Following and Where

"Your Heavenly Father will never let you down!"

Christians in A.A.

[This article comments on the writing of a persistent critic of A.A. and Christians who attend A.A.]

The article ignores the extensive record of Christians in A.A.--tens of thousands of them; the Christian organizations like YMCA, Salvation Army, evangelists like Moody and Meyer, Gospel Rescue Missions, and Christian Endeavor Society that were not pre-occupied with being AGAINST liquor and helping the derelicts and drunks, but FOR healing the alcoholic by the power of God. Any reputable discussion does not ignore these long documented and much discussed facts. See Dick B., When Early AAs Were Cured and Why. Moreover the continuing staccato snippets like those in this article ignore the intensive Christian upbringing in Congregational churches and academies, as well as the YMCA and Christian Endeavor, that were part  of the lives of A.A. Co-founders in their youth in Vermont.. Finally, it ws not until Bill Wilson sat down with three others (one a secretary) in 1939, just before the A.A. Big Book went to press, and introduced the idea that those who were atheists and agnostics might find something of use in A.A. But the dozens of continued references in t he Big Book to God, Creator, Maker, Heavenly Father, Father of Light, etc. demonstrate the continued influence of the Bible on every facet of early A.A. Contrast this with the fact that belief in God and coming to Him through Jesus Christ was a  requisite for membership in the A.A. Christian Fellowship founded in Akron in 1935. See The Dick B. Christian Recovery Guide, 4th ed, 2012. And perhaps it these facts are repeated and repeated and repeated, some of the "higher power" "new thought" "protestant liberalism" jargon will be seen for what it is--of no interest to the tens of thousands of believing and practicing Christians who are learning real A.A. history and forming hundreds of Christian Recovery Fellowships and programs in all   50 states and in other countries where a return to and practical application of the First Century Christianity principles and practices of early AAs are allowed out of the shadows by critics and unbelievers, and seen as the new great wind of present-day Christian Recovery Movement leaders, workers, newcomers, and concerned public. Today, the Christian Recovery Movement is on the move; and it certainly is not limited to Christians in NA, A.A., Al-Anon, Overcomers Outreach, Alcoholics for Christ, Alcoholics Victorious, Celebrate Recovery, Teen Challenge, and YWAM - to mention a few.

What is the "basic text" of Alcoholics Anonymous. A response

Thank you for the update. I continue to see the importance of being aware of the "Big Myth;" i.e., that the Foreword (of which there are actually four in the fourth edition), "The Doctor's Opinion," the "first 164 pages," and "Appendix II: Spiritual Experience" are "the basic text" of Alcoholics Anonymous Society. The "Big Myth" is contradicted by:

1. A number of the basic meanings of the word "text" in a good dictionary (e.g.: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/text); i.e., the word "text" usually means a book or a manuscript--i.e., the whole thing, not just a portion.

2. The words on the front cover of the dust jacket of the hard back version of the fourth edition of the Big Book (2001)--the first thing that many people would see when they look at a new copy of the current edition of the hard back edition of the Big Book with its original dust jacket on it; i.e.:

Alcoholics Anonymous

This is the Fourth Edition of the Big Book, the Basic Text for Alcoholics Anonymous [highlighting added]

(Again, the whole book is "the basic text.")

3. The second paragraph of the first page of the Preface in the fourth edition (p. xi) states in part:

. . . this book has become the basic text for our Society . . . [highlighting added]

 

Food for thought for those who want to know.

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Anti-Alcoholics Anonymous Bystanders

Anti-Alcoholics Anonymous Bystanders

 

Twenty or More Questions that Test Their Hate-filled Devotion

 

Dick B.

 

© 2013 Anonymous. All rights reserved

 

Does the anti-Alcoholics Anonymous challenger attend A.A. meetings, groups, seminars, or conferences? Does this writer believe in God? Has this writer confessed with his mouth that Jesus is Lord and does he believe in his heart that God raised Jesus from the dead? See Romans 10:9. Has this writer read the 46 books and over 1300 articles published by Dick B. on the Christian roots of the Twelve Step movement? I have.

 

Has the anti-Alcoholics Anonymous protagonist ever reached out to a suffering newcomer in an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting? Has he ever welcomed one? Has he ever given his phone number to one? Has he ever led anyone in Alcoholics Anonymous to accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior? Has he ever spoken at an A.A. meeting, group, or conference? I have.

 

Has the vitriolic anti-Alcoholics Anonymous scribe read the multiple biographies, writings, and autobiographies of Bill Wilson, of Dr. Bob Smith, of Lois Wilson, of Anne Ripley Smith, of Dr. William D. Silkworth, of Clarence H. Snyder, of Grace Snyder, of Rev. Samuel M. Shoemaker, Jr., of Frank N.D. Buchman, of Mrs. Samuel Shoemaker, of Rowland Hazard, of Garrett Stearly, of Cebra Graves, of Frank Amos, of Norman Vincent Peale, of Ebby Thacher, of Father John C. Ford, of Sister Ignatia, of Father Ed Dowling, of Russell Firestone, of James D. Newton, of Eleanor Forde Newton, of Dwight Moody, of Ira Sankey, of F.B. Meyer, of Allen Folger, of Henry Moorehouse, of Henry Drummond, of Billy Sunday, of George Williams, of General William Booth, of Jerry McAuley, of S.H. Hadley, of Francis Clarke, of Amos Wells, of Sherwood Eddy, of Henry B. Wright, of Robert E. Speer, of T.S. Elliott, of Ethel Willetts, of Carl Jung, of William James, of Judge Walter Smith, of Mrs. Walter Smith, of Gilman Wilson, of Helen Wilson, of Fayette Griffith, of T. Henry Williams, of Clarace Williams, of Henrietta B. Seiberling, of Sue Smith Windows, of Robert R. Smith, of  Professor Weatherford, of B.H. Streeter, of L. Parks Shipley, of James Houck, of Victor Kitchen, of A.J. Russell, of Harold Begbie, of Stephen Foote, of Garth Lean, of Michael Hutchinson, of T. Willard Hunter, of Cecil Rose, of Bunny Austin, of Harvey Firestone Sr., of Russell Firestone, of Bill Wilson’s grandfather “Willie,” of Dr. Tunks, of Joe McQuany, of Charlie Parmley, or of the Shoemaker circle of Christian believers in New York, or of the Shoemaker circle of Christian believers in Pittsburgh?

 

I have. In fact, I have interviewed most of these people, and read the books and articles most of them have written.

 

Has the vociferous anti-Alcoholics Anonymous writer ever spoken to A.A. group secretaries, treasurers, General Service Representatives, Delegates, Trustees, archivists, and office workers? I have.

 

Has the repetitious anti-Alcoholics Anonymous advocate ever personally met, talked at length with, and questioned A.A. newcomers? I have. Has he or she ever sponsored an AA? I have. Has he or she ever spoken at a Celebrate Recovery meeting, an Alcoholics Victorious conference, an Overcomers conference, an Overcomers Outreach, Inc. conference, an Alcoholics for Christ meeting, a YWAM group, a Christian recovery fellowship, a substance abuse treatment center, a Christian treatment center, an assemblage of Christian Recovery Counselors, at Betty Ford, at Christian churches, to Christian recovery fellowships, to conferences of Christian leaders and workers from all over the world, to wardens, state and federal elected leaders and substance abuse research leaders, to public officials concerned with the drug and alcohol problems, to addictionologists, to universities, to seminaries, to colleges, to interventionists, to detox specialists, to Hazelden executives and workers, to Christian Protestant ministers, to Jewish Rabbis, to Roman Catholic priests, to pastoral counselors, to Salvation Army officers and volunteers, to Young Men’s Christian Association leaders, to Christian Endeavor members and leaders, to rescue mission leaders and workers, to those who serve at the Wilson House, the Griffith Library, the Dr. Bob Core Library, the St. Paul’s Protestant Episcopal church and library in Akron, to the Calvary Episcopal Church rector in Pittsburgh, to the rector of Calvary Episcopal Church in New York, to the archivist at the Episcopal Church archives in New York, to the archivist at Hartford Seminary, to the librarian at Princeton University, to the principal founder of the Seiberling Gate  Lodge renovation? I have.

 

Has the anti-Alcoholics writer ever visited, examined the manuscripts and documents and researched at the Griffith House Library, Wilson House, or East Dorset, Vermont; at the East Dorset Congregational Church at the Burr and Burton Seminary and Manchester Congregational Church in Manchester, Vermont; at the Norwich Military Academy at  Northfield, Vermont; at the Vermont History Center in Vermont; at the Wilson home in Rutland, Vermont; at the Mount Hermon School of Dwight L. Moody; at the Fairbanks Museum or St. Johnsbury Academy archives and library; or the Dr. Bob Core Library at North Congregational Church, St. Johnsbury, Vermont; or St. Johnsbury Academy; or Burr and Burton Academy; or the St. Paul’s Library in Akron, Ohio; or the Seiberling Gate Lodge library in Akron; or the Episcopal Church Archives in Austin, Texas; or the Shoemaker Room at Calvary Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh; or the Brown University Collection; or the headquarters of the Oxford Group in Washington, D.C.; or the libraries and collections of Oxford Group leaders such as George Vondermuhll, Jr.; or the Buchman home in Pennsylvania; or the offices and library of the Alcoholics Anonymous General Service Office in New York; or the Princeton Alumni archives; or The Pittsburgh Experiment offices and archives; at The Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation leaders and with the original Pittsburgh “golf club crowd,” or the Hartford Seminary Library; or the Bierce Library at the University of Akon; or the libraries at Dr. Bob’s Home, or the present and retired archivists at Dr. Bobs Home, of the Akron Intergroup; at Golden Gate Seminary and San Anselmo Seminary in Marin County, California; of the records of Calvary Church in New York, Calvary Church in Pittsburgh, and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Akron, or with the university professors, historians, and librarians at  well-known institutions?

 

I have. In fact either my benefactors or I have donated over 30,000 books, manuscripts, papers, articles to them.

 

If the few anti-Alcoholics Anonymous writers and advocates have has answered “No” to twenty or more of the foregoing questions, or to most, or to all, there’s a question for each: When are you going to start learning instead of opining, reporting instead of condemning, teaching instead of  defaming, misquoting the Bible out of context, telling truthful facts instead of occasionally quoting some other anti-A.A. writer? If your answer to this question is equivocal, evasive, negative, or confusing to us, then you have a lot of traveling, interviewing, reading, learning, and thinking to do.

 

Will they?

 

Basic Christian Roots of Early A.A.-- AA History

Alcoholics Anonymous History

The Basic Christian Roots of Early A.A.

Dick B.

© 2013 Anonymous. All rights reserved.

This article was originally published in 2010. But many new facts about AA basics, the source of

A.A. basic ideas, and the contributing elements have been unearthed and published since then. Hence this presentation updates my view of the roots. The view comes from 24 years of travel, interviews, books, articles, manuscripts, library visits, and archive records among other resources.

Alcoholics Anonymous History is not a story book about the vagaries of this or that alkie who has imbibed too much, paid a heavy price for his foibles, and then become a poster boy for the religious solution which enabled him to choose God’s way and become well. Do alkies err? Do Christians err? Did the Bible err in its statement that all men have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 4: “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”)?

Some today have condemned an alcoholic or an alcoholic leader who has quit drinking for good, “recovered” in Alcoholics Anonymous, and overcome condemnation by being spiritually minded instead of carnally minded (Romans 8:7-9: “Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be; So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God. But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you”). Romans 8:1 (“There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit”).

But great will be the unattainable day when someone has presented himself as without sin and as the perfect man. That day will not come until the gathering together of the children of God on Christ’s return. Meanwhile, some—like the Apostle Paul—continue in their efforts to walk by the spirit of God and put off the old man who offers temptation and disobedience. The comedian Flip Wilson used to describe man’s plight while awaiting the return: “The devil made me do it.” The Book of James—a favorite in early A.A.—provided a choice in the words of James 4:7—“Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.” James 1:16, 22 enjoin us: “Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren. . . . But be doers of the word, and not hearers only deceiving yourselves.”

Why this preface to the Christian origins of A.A.?

Sinners today abound. AAs who sin abound. But there are those who become Christians and obey the injunction of Ephesians 5:18: “And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit.”They may or may not continue to err in other respects, but they have been able to walk in the light because they heeded the drink command and did so in reliance on the power, love, forgiveness, and healing of God.

Such were the cofounders of A.A. in the earliest days—whatever accusations of sin may be hurled against them today by those who literally spew hatred at A.A., its founders, and those who attend it.

A.A. Cofounders Dr. Bob and Bill W. both were born and raised in Vermont. And one of the latest books my son Ken and I just published is Bill W. and Dr. Bob, the Green Mountain Men of Vermont: The Roots of Early A.A.’s Original Program. It is the product of extensive travel and investigation in almost every Vermont town and village that impacted on the lives of our co-founders. Two slightly earlier and heavily documented books approach the facts from the standpoint of each founder separately. They will serve you well if you want ample evidence,

citations and bibliographical material. They are Dr. Bob of Alcoholics Anonymous: His Excellent Training in the Good Book as a Youngster in Vermont and The Conversion of Bill W.: More on the Creator’s Role in Early A.A.

A few have written opposing A.A. and AAs. They kick and scream when they see and learn that both Bill and Bob were Christians; both were Bible students; and, of course, both believed in God. Moreover, each had a Congregational upbringing. Congregational family training. Each was much involved in the Bible. Each knew of conversions, revivals, and temperance meetings. Each attended church weekly or more. Each attended daily chapel at his Academy. Each had connections with the Young Men’s Christian Association. And. each was steeped in the basic Christian roots of early A.A.

They could hardly have escaped such immersion. From at least 1850 forward, the great evangelists, the Young Men’s Christian Association, the Gospel Rescue Missions, the Salvation Army, Congregationalism, and the Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor held forth on the East Coast and very frequently in Vermont.

Dr. Bob Smith and Bill Wilson both were or became Christians, followed the path of Jesus Christ during their youth, and ultimately reaped the benefit of Proverbs 22:6: “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.”

But then each erred! Big time. They surged into the web of strong drink. Each became an alcoholic and did all the disastrous deeds recounted almost daily in meetings of 12 Step fellowships round the world. They and many who followed them may well have continued in their murky paths. But that straying did not result in their abandonment by a loving and forgiving God. It did still provide them with the opportunity to remember where they came from, repent, receive God’s pardon, and go on serving God and others. And whatever shortcomings others have pointed to, they could rightly claim to be one of God’s kids and assured of eternal life.

Here then are the basic Christian roots upon which the foundations of Alcoholics Anonymous rested. Powerful roots that inspired A.A. cofounders both when they were you were young men afloat in Christian upbringing and later when they emerged from darkness and sought to quit drinking, give their lives to God, and help others. In these particulars, they became winners!

One: Evangelists and Revivalists: These strong Christian message carriers included Dwight L. Moody, Ira Sankey, Allen Folger, F. B. Meyer, YMCA laymen, and many others less well known.. They fostered The Great Awakening of 1875 in St. Johnsbury, Vermont and preached salvation and God’s Word—leading thousands to accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and blessing them with healing and the Word of God.

Two: Young Men’s Christian Association lay folks. These brethren were nondenominational in approach, but much involved with church and academy activities and revivals. They conducted Gospel and revival meetings in St. Johnsbury, galvanized the Great Awakening of 1875 in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, and stressed conversion to Christ and attention to the Word of God. Dr. Bob’s father was President of the St. Johnsbury YMCA, and Bill Wilson was President of his Seminary’s YMCA. Bill’s high school sweetheart Bertha Bamford was president of the YWCA.

Three: Rescue Missions: These served derelicts and drunks, gave them “soup, soap, and Salvation,” opened their religious services with “Jesus Saves,” hymns, Bible reading, and the altar call. They invited the very decisions for Christ that Bill Wilson and his friend Ebby Thacher experienced at Calvary Rescue Mission in New York. Bill certainly went to the altar there and made a decision for Jesus Christ that was seen and attested by many who were there; and he soon wrote, “For sure I’d been born again.”

Four: Salvation Army: The fundamental outreach was by one recovered alcoholic helping another. Suffering alcoholics, addicts, and derelicts were brought to Christ, heard the good news of the Bible, and then were recruited to serve others in “God’s Army.”

Fifth: Young People’s Christian Endeavor Society (“For Christ and For Church”): Dr. Bob was active in this in his St. Johnsbury North Congregational Church. The program was almost identical to that practiced by early Christian A.A. in Akron. It involved Confession of Christ, Conversion meetings. Prayer meetings, Bible study meetings, Quiet Hour, reading and discussion of Christian literature, and the slogan “love and service”—which popped up in Dr. Bob’s A.A. talks.

Sixth: New England Congregationalism dominated the scene in our founders’ younger days. Church leaders worked alongside Young Men’s Christian Association personal workers. The seminaries and academies attended by Bill and Bob were founded, dominated, and run by Congregational leaders. Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor began in a Maine Congregational church and rapidly spread to Vermont and hundreds of other Congregational and Christian churches. A.A. founders were participants in North Congregational Church of St. Johnsbury in the village of Dr. Bob’s younger days; East Dorset Congregational Church in the town of Bill Wilson’s birth and upbringing; and Manchester Congregational Church in the seminary of Bill’s high school years in Manchester, Vermont.

Seventh:: The Oxford Group—long known as “A First Century Christian Fellowship”—was formed much later (about 1919) and espoused a Christian life-changing program with twenty-eight principles that impacted upon A.A. and were incorporated in Bill Wilson’s 1939 Big Book and Twelve Step program. See The Oxford Group & Alcoholics Anonymous, by Dick B. This “A First Century Christian Fellowship Oxford Group was founded by Lutheran Minister Frank N. D. Buchman. Buchman and many of his followers were not only clergy from many Protestant churches, but wrote and spoke incessantly about God, Christ, the Bible, and salvation.

Eighth: Rev. Samuel M. Shoemaker, Jr., Rector of Calvary Episcopal Church in New York. An American Oxford Group leader, prolific writer, and teacher to Bill Wilson of the ideas behind all the Twelve Steps, particularly Steps Two through Eleven. See New Light on Alcoholism: God, Sam Shoemaker, and A.A., by Dick B.

Ninth: Several men and women, most of them Christian leaders, had much to do with peripheral ideas that found their way into A.A.: (1) Dr. William D. Silkworth, a psychiatrist and devout Christian who told Bill that Jesus Christ could cure him. (2) Rowland Hazard, Shepard Cornell, Cebra Graves, Ebby Thacher, Garrett Stearly, Victor Kitchen, Sherwood Day, Professor Henry B. Wright, W. Irving Harris, and other leaders shared and/or wrote from their Christian convictions. (3) A prominent teacher, writer, and Christian leader-friend of Dwight Moody actually wrote the “Four Absolute”standards that were so important in the Christian Fellowship in Akron. The many was Dr. Robert E. Speer. (4) Others such as Dr. Carl G. Jung and Professor William James—while probably not Christians—recognized and passed along to Oxford Groupers, Shoemaker, and AAs the fact that many alcoholics had overcome their problem by Christian vital religious experiences.

Resources: Dick B., Dr. Bob of Alcoholics Anonymous; The Conversion of Bill W; The Oxford Group & Alcoholics Anonymous; New Light on Alcoholism: God, Sam Shoemaker, and A.A.; a and Real Twelve Step Fellowship History. See www.dickb.com/titles.shtml

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Foreword to the First Edition by Bob Smith (Dr. Bob’s son, “Smitty”)

Preface

Acknowledgements

1.      Lest We Forget Early AAs and Their Bibles!

2.      God!

3.      Biblical Impact on Big Book Language

4.      The Parts Dr. Bob Found “Essential”

5.      The Good Book and the Twelve Steps

6.      Keeping It Simple

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Bibliography

Index

 

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1.      History: The Inclusion in Recovery of A.A.’s Biblical Origins and Christian Fellowship

2.      The Healing Evidence at the Time When A.A. Was Born

3.      Alcoholics Anonymous, the Founders, Belief in Almighty God and Divine Healing

4.      The Spiritual Beginnings of A.A.

5.      The Real Program of Early A.A.

6.      The Materials from the Bible That Dr. Bob Considered “Absolutely Essential”

7.      The Approach Early Akron A.A.’s Took While They Sought Christian Healing

8.      The Practical Use and Application of This Guide

Bibliography

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Introduction

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2.      Part Two: The Sermon on the Mount in A.A.

3.      Part Three: A.A.’s Connections with The Greatest Thing in the World and 1 Corinthians 13

Appendix 1: Outline of the Original Program

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Appendix 3: The Two Different A.A. Root Streams

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