Your Invitation to Send Your Twelve Step
Guide
Dick B.
Executive Director, International
Christian Recovery Coalition
Through my 22 years of research and publishing on Alcoholics
Anonymous History, I have acquired many publications which, regardless of title,
can rightly be called Twelve Step Guides.
Many varieties are in my shelves. I play no favorites when
someone tells me that have or have written or use a particular guide. Even when
it lambastes A.A. or the Steps or the Bible. Sometimes authors inscribe the
guide. Sometimes they ask if I would like to have a copy. Sometimes publishers
send them. Sometimes Twelve Steppers from other groups send them.
And they are all welcome, instructive, and apt to be quoted,
utilized, or criticized. But mostly they have resulted in phone conversations,
letters, and friendships.
As a few know, we are launching a new project. It is now
called “Impaired No More: The Real Solution.” There are many facets of the
project. There will be a library or libraries that contain books relevant to
the subject and to the solution. There will be brief film clips that will be
made available through an online link. There may be audio
clips. There certainly will be books, eBooks, articles, newsletters, blogs,
forums, Facebook and Twitter entries, and conferences and seminars to go with
them all.
Personally, I have already received Christian guides, Twelve
Step guides, Bible guides, Recovery Bible guides, secular guides and
criticisms, A.A. and Twelve-Step authored guides, and many more. In fact, the
more the merrier.
Here’s the Invitation
If you, your friends, your group, your center, your program,
your publisher, your church, your fellowship, and others have:
1. A
guide to the Twelve Steps.
2. A
recovery guide that is focused on biblical guides, Christian guides, A.A.
guides,
Religious guides, and Twelve Step
organization or publisher guides.
And if you would like, at your own expense, to send a
complimentary copy that is free, not-to-be-returned, perhaps inscribed, and
something you would like to have examined, listed, mentioned, and perhaps
discussed as we move forward, please send your copy to:
Dick B., PO Box 837 , Kihei ,
HI 96753-0837
Your gracious response will be acknowledged, appreciated,
and used in one way or another to help the suffering addicted and afflicted.
You know our focus is on God’s help. You may not know that we believe that
A.A.’s roots—whether biblical, Oxford Group, Shoemaker, Jamesian, Jungian, New
Thought, denominational, non-profit, secular, humanist, and bordering on the
“incurable” thesis—should be known by all in the recovery movement and dealt
with.
Dick B., dickb@dickb.com,
808 874 4876.
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