This is a book unlike any of the many recent biographies of A.A. co-founder William Griffith Wilson (known as Bill W.).
Appendix 5 Entries in Sam Shoemaker ' s Journals ( 1934 - 1939 ) about Bill Wilson emaker ' s j22 through Septend together wi Sam Shoemaker kept a daily journal from at least the mid - 1920 ' s to the end of his life .
Pioneer Stories in Alcoholics Anonymous: God's Role in Recovery Confirmed! by Dick B. and Ken B. presents many quotations from the 29 personal stories included in the first edition of Alcoholics Anonymous.
And that is important largely because conversion as a solution impacted on Bill Wilson , on Dr . Bob , and on the initial “ surrenders ” to Christ that were mandatory and commonplace in early Akron A . A . Conversion and Bill Wilson ...
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Taken together, this reference volume and the actual materials in the Griffith Library, constitute the largest and most complete record of early A.A. historical materials in the world today, other than the Library of Congress items.
pages containing both positive and possible references to A . A . and to Bill Wilson . More than a dozen Oxford Group people around the world reviewed the author ' s manuscripts and sent Oxford Group books , pamphlets , and memos .
Lois Wilson commented to Bill Pittman , author of AA The Way It Began , that Bill Wilson frequently read the Nichols book and that Bill and Lois had regularly read Oswald Chambers ' My Utmost for His Highest . And during our last visit ...
I contacted the heir of the papers owned by a private secretary to both Bill Wilson and Lois Wilson . He believed he had seen the full , prior manuscript , but could not find it after an extensive search by both of us of his home and ...
William James wrote Varieties of Religious Experience , which Wilson believed validated his “ hot flash ” experience — possibly a “ spiritual experience ” —at Towns Hospital . Finally , as he looked back on his life , Bill Wilson ...
really touched him was hearing Bill W. ( Bill Wilson ) tell Mrs. D. [ Bill Dotson's wife ] about a week later , " Henrietta , the Lord has been so wonderful to me curing me of this terrible disease , that I just want to keep talking ...
Then , after Dotson had been home from the hospital for about two weeks , Dotson reported in his personal Big Book story ) the following conversation among Dotson , Dotson's wife Henrietta , and Bill Wilson : “ Bill [ Wilson ) was over ...
One writer , Ernest Kurtz , concluded these things about Wilson and religion - though Kurtz provides virtually no references for us to chew on : Of Bill ' s earlier exposure to religion , little is known - probably because there is ...
The conversion and healing of Bill W.'s Grandpa Willie : Odd it is that AAs have sometimes expressed contempt of religion , churches , and revivals and yet have never heard that Bill Wilson's grandfather Willie Wilson , through his ...
Wilson , Bill . How The Big Book Was Put Together . New York : A.A. General Services Archives , Transcript of Bill Wilson Speech delivered in Fort Worth , Texas , 1954 . Bill Wilson's Original Story . Bedford Hills , New York : Stepping ...
Sam had a circle of clergy and Oxford Group friends whose books and teachings fed into Wilson's thinking and writing . And Sam himself was closeted in his office with Wilson throughout A.A.'s formative years . Shoemaker mentions Wilson ...
Dick B. is a writer, historian, Bible student, retired attorney, and active recovered member of A.A. He has sponsored more than 100 men in their recovery.
And there certainly were no Twelve Steps at all until Bill Wilson wrote them in late 1938 . But all the forces and sources mentioned above in connection with the Big Book converge in the Big Book ' s presentation of the Twelve Steps .
This book is the only study devoted exclusively & specifically to the Oxford Group origins, ideas, principles, practices, & specific impact on A.A., its Big Book, & its Twelve Steps.
It seems to have reared its head and to have gained historical prominence as Bill Wilson's secretary , Nell Wing ( a Buddhist ) started providing the names of books she claimed were popular in early A.A. ( See Bill Pittman , AA The Way ...