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Dick B.’s son, Ken B., M.A., here.
The New “Dick B. on Recovery Mini Reference Set No. 6” (A New Way Out): $49.95, plus S&H. The Mini Ref. Set includes the following five (5) titles on A.A. History by Dick B.:
[1.] Dick B., Introduction to the Sources and Founding of Alcoholics Anonymous (Kihei, HI: Paradise Research Publications, 2007), 82 pp. (Regular retail list price: $22.95).
From “the last page” of Introduction to the Sources and Founding of Alcoholics Anonymous by Dick B.:
“Emerging congregations that are seeking a Christ-centered recovery ministry will find valuable help in Dick B.’s well-researched and balanced work in spiritual matters so neglected by other A.A. historians. Recovery for the early members of A.A. became an occasion for celebration, peace, and joy, because of their close identity with the Christian faith that birthed and matured it.”
Charles B. Puskas, Ph.D., who has pastored several congregations in Midwestern America, is a biblical scholar, and the author of The Letters of Paul (Liturgical Press), and a forthcoming title with Wm. B. Eerdmans on the Gospels and Acts.
From the back cover of Introduction to the Sources and Founding of Alcoholics Anonymous by Dick B.:
“Dick B. has long awaited the opportunity to provide a written introduction to the history of Alcoholics Anonymous that could be used by individual Twelve Step people, sponsors, facilitators, therapists, writers, historians, treatment centers, and interested agencies to include a correct 12 Step history in their own programs. And this is the title for just that!
“There are five major epochs in the spiritual recovery program that is embodied in Alcoholics Anonymous itself. Each is covered in this introduction; and the points here provide an umbrella introduction to the variant sources, attitudes, strains, divergences, and language in programs today.
“1. The Akron Genesis Period – Bob’s childhood to prayers for him in Akron in 1935.
“2. The New York Conversion Period – Calvary Mission to Bill’s Akron visit.
“3. The Original A.A. Program that Bill and Bob developed from Akron Bible roots between 1935 and 1938.
“4. The Works Publishing Co. Program Bill fashioned and embodied in A.A.’s basic text of 1939.
“5. The Reshaping of the Wilson Program between 1939 and 1955.
“Learn these stages of Twelve Step program development, and you’ll know our real A.A. sources and understand its original program, the Big Book changes, and the enormous divergences that began just before Bill’s years of severe depression. You’ll be able to describe our history as it is and was, not as some have reshaped it to satisfy individual promotional, universalist, secularist, or revisionist agenda theories.”
“Recommended by:
“Dick B. has given us yet another thoroughly researched and pointed book of the essential historical life-changing features of one of the most amazing miracles of the past century. Application of what is written in this book will help all who are recovering from alcoholism and other addictions, as well as those working in the field. Well done, Dick. Thank you!”
Robert Turner, M.D., M.S.C.R., Charleston, South Carolina,
Associate Professor, Medical University of South Carolina.
Steve F., Businessman, Winter Park, Florida;
Co-author, Our A.A. Legacy to the Faith Community: A Twelve-Step Guide for Those Who Want to Believe;
Leader, Clarence Snyder Spiritual Retreats for AAs and their families.
[2.] Dick B., A New Way In: Reaching the Heart of a Child of God in Recovery with His Own, Powerful, Historical Roots (Kihei, HI: Paradise Research Publications, Inc., 2006), 96 pp. (Regular retail list price: $19.95).
From the back cover of A New Way In Dick B.:
“How can you help a new person who believes in God, has become one of God’s kids, and opens his mouth in a meeting to say so? And how can you help the old-timer who has long been a believer, has seen the growing idolatry and religious intimidation in the recovery community, and has just given up on helping the new person who is bewildered by the intimidation, unbelief, and ridicule of church and religion today? This book will tell you how.
“The old-timer may be on his way out—leaving meetings, leaving his fellowship, trying sobriety on his own, or turning to a religious recovery group. That may be OK. But why should he leave a fellowship that originally offered him much and whose very downward spiral away from God jeopardizes the program and the newcomer who is losing leadership and help.
“This book provides a simple answer—telling the truth.
“If AAs learn that their earliest fellowship had a 75 to 93% success rate, they’ll learn something they are not seeing today. If they learn that the early Christian fellowship program was far different from that in today’s Big Book and Steps, they may want to know just how much the Bible influenced A.A.’s beginnings. If they learn that Bill Wilson was utterly truthful when he said nobody invented A.A., they may want to know the inventor. If they learn that the Salvation Army, Christian Endeavor, Rescue Missions, Oxford Group, and YMCA all had huge, highly successful programs—and many still do—that helped thousands and thousands with the simple ideas early AAs adopted, they’ll see their own strong base; gain confidence as newcomer-believers, courage as old-timer believers, and enthusiasm for their long buried history.
“Remind the child of God about God. Remind him of what God has done for believers throughout the ages. Remind him that he or she is as much loved, as much enlightened, and as much offered deliverance as anyone mentioned in the Good Book. Remind him that early AAs became God’s kids, believed God, obeyed God, loved and served God, and kept their ideas simple. Remind him that he’s the winner, the one who can be cured, and the one to carry the message. It’s by grace!”
[3.] Dick B., A New Way Out: New Path – Familiar Road Signs – Our Creator’s Guidance (Kihei, HI: Paradise Research Publications, Inc., 2006), 94 pp. (Regular retail list price: $19.95).
From the back cover of A New Way Out by Dick B.:
“There’s a new way out of addictions, alcoholism, and other life-controlling problems.
“Disappointed and discouraged, many today would abandon A.A., 12-Step programs, treatment, and therapy because of low success rates. But there is a far better way—look to the history, principles, and practices of early A.A. with its documented 75% to 93% success rate among medically-incurable alcoholics who really tried. That’s when A.A. did work.
“Also, look to the history, principles, and practices of the worldwide societies which spawned A.A. ideas and were highly effective—the Salvation Army, the Rescue and Gospel Missions, United Christian Endeavor Society, Young Men’s Christian Association. You will see a common thread. You’ll see it in early A.A. too. And this book will tell you about it.
“Then look to the history, principles, and practices of churches, clergy, para-church, Christ-centered, and Christian recovery programs. Look to the histories of healing by religious means. Such healing dates from the Old Testament and follows through to today. When people relied upon the Creator, accepted Christ, called upon God in Jesus’ name for cure, and believed, they received.
“History is our product. Accurate information our specialty. Usefulness our standard. A New Way Out leads to the power of God, the name of Jesus Christ, the love of God and neighbor, and serving others. It applauds the good things in A.A. and 12-Step programs. It respects the good things in religion. It grounds you in the historical elements of recovery by the power of God, and then points you to support groups and church—armed as you will be with those elements of each that worked in the earliest days, and those that don’t work today.
“Include a history element in your own program. This book will give you the history. You can experience the results—the same results found in early A.A. and the other great organizations upon whose ideas it drew.”
[4.] Dick B., The Golden Text of A.A.: God, the Pioneers, and Real Spirituality (Kihei, HI: Paradise Research Publications, Inc., 1999), 96 pp. (Regular retail list price: $20.95.)
From the back cover of The Golden Text of A.A. by Dick B.:
“For the past four years, author Dick B. has been honored with invitations to come to The Wilson House, birthplace of A.A. co-founder Bill Wilson, and deliver a weekend seminar on various aspects of A.A.’s roots in the Bible and Christianity. The 1999 seminar bears the title The Golden Text of A.A. The title phrase is taken from remarks by Bill Wilson and by A.A. Number Three Bill Dotson. These two pioneers clearly and frankly carried the message that God had ’cured’ them of the ‘terrible’ disease called alcoholism.
“Dick has been called ‘A.A.’s unofficial historian.’ He has had thirteen titles published on each of the six major sources of A.A.’s spiritual ideas: (1) The Bible; (2) Quiet Time; (3) The teachings of the Rev. Sam Shoemaker of New York; (4) The life-changing program of A First Century Christian Fellowship also known as the Oxford Group; (5) The contents of a journal kept by A.A. cofounder Dr. Bob Smith’s wife Anne during A.A.’s formative years between 1933 and 1939; and (6) Christian literature early AAs read for spiritual growth.
“Here, as always, Dick brings to bear his experience as an active, recovered AA and Bible student. He has sponsored over eighty men in their recovery. He has spent nine years researching A.A.’s biblical roots. These he used in taking AAs through the Twelve Steps, helping them learn A.A.’s Big Book, and utilizing the same tools early AAs used in their Christian Fellowship. This particular title emphasizes the healing power of God Almighty, the ‘Power’ to whom early AAs looked for recovery, and the Power whom they understood as the God of the Bible they studied. A Bible their cofounder rightly called ‘The Good Book.’
“The Golden Text of A.A. will inspire you. It shows you how to stick to your guns as a Christian or potential Christian who wants the benefits of the A.A. Fellowship, the life-changing structure of the Twelve Steps, and the truth about the power of God and access to Him through the work of His son Jesus Christ.”
“Speaking of all of Dick B.’s titles, a distinguished seminary professor, psychotherapist and family counselor, and author said: ‘Carefully researched volumes by the leading historian of A.A.’”
The Reverend Howard J. Clinebell, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, School of Theology at Claremont, CA
Author of 13 books including his latest Understanding and Counseling Persons with Alcohol, Drug, and Behavioral Addictions (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1998).”
[5.] Dick B., Utilizing Early A.A.’s Spiritual Roots for Recovery Today (Kihei, HI: Paradise Research Publications, Inc., 1998), 108 pp. (Regular retail list price: $20.95).
From the back cover of Utilizing Early A.A.’s Spiritual Roots for Recovery Today by Dick B.:
“Author Dick B. has been honored several times with invitations to come to The Wilson House, birthplace of A.A. cofounder Bill Wilson, and deliver a weekend seminar on various aspects of A.A.’s roots in the Bible and Christianity. The 1998 seminar was titled Utilizing Early A.A.’s Spiritual Roots for Recovery Today. This booklet was part of the seminar. It will enable Twelve Step groups, individuals, treatment facilities, counselors, and churches to study A.A., the Twelve Steps, and recovery in the backdrop of early A.A.’s real spirituality, beliefs, and tools.”
“You will learn how to combine Big Book study with a study of A.A.’s roots. You will learn how to incorporate the Bible in Twelve Step recovery. You will learn the ingredients of the all-important early A.A. Quiet Time. You will see how the contents of Anne Smith’s journal can help your program. You will see that A.A.’s Oxford Group roots can be used for understanding, and not theology. And you will understand God as God understands Himself. It’s all here!”
“A distinguished seminary professor, psychotherapist and family counselor, and author has said this about Dick’s books: ‘Carefully researched volumes by the leading historian of A.A.’”
The Reverend Howard J. Clinebell, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, School of Theology at Claremont, CA
Author of 13 books including his latest Understanding and Counseling Persons with Alcohol, Drug, and Behavioral Addictions (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1998).”
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