DR. BOB OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

His Excellent Training in the Good Book As a Youngster in Vermont

This title tells you about A.A. cofounder Dr. Bob’s “excellent training” in the “Good Book” as “a youngster.” It presents an in-depth exploration of the training Dr. Bob received during his boyhood years in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. You will see, from its documented details, that young Bob’s major Christian training—the training translated into the early A.A. spiritual recovery program in Akron—came from his parents, Walter P. and Susan H. Smith; North Congregational Church, St. Johnsbury; the Christian Endeavor Society of that church; and the rigorous requirements and studies at the famous St. Johnsbury Academy. The authors traveled to St. Johnsbury; visited principal buildings existing during Bob’s youth; interviewed the North Church pastor, the St. Johnsbury Academy archivist and the librarian, people at his boyhood home, and others. Then began their intensive research of the actual records, background books, photos, and communications. The bibliography will help readers to do likewise if they choose. More importantly, this title is a companion to a second “volume” comprising 20 resource binders and to a large number of books in the newly- founded Dr. Bob Core Library at North Congregational Church, St. Johnsbury, which houses extensive historical, biographical, educational, Christian, and other books, manuscripts, and photographs.

Paradise Research Publications, Inc.; 353 pp.; 6 x 9; perfect bound; 2008; $24.95; ISBN 1-885803-85-6
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The Conversion of Bill W.
More on the Creator's Role in Early A.A.

An astonishing study of the religious background and beliefs of A.A. co-founder Bill Wilson and from the particular perspective of the “conversion” which he said was the foundation for the Steps, was suggested by Dr. Jung, and which Bill himself experienced at the altar at Calvary Rescue Mission.

Paradise Research Publications, Inc.; 249 pp.; 6 x 9; perfect bound; 2006; $22.95; ISBN 1-885803-90-7
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INTRODUCTION TO THE SOURCES AND FOUNDING OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

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!

Paradise Research Publications, Inc.; 82 pp.; 6 x 9; perfect bound; 2007; $21.95; ISBN 1-885803-86-9
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Real Twelve Step Fellowship History
The Old School A.A. You May Not Know

The first detailed guide to “train the trainers” in the full and concise presentation of an early A.A. history segment as a part of any recovery program. Details all aspects of the original Akron Christian Fellowship Program as reported by Frank Amos to AAs and to Rockefeller. Illustrates the distinct difference between that original program and the later program fashioned by Bill Wilson from the teachings of Rev. Sam Shoemaker and for A.A.’s basic text (the Big Book). Shows how much the program changed during the 1940’s in the period of Bill ’s deep depression when others stepped up to the plate with their own versions of how to “work” the program.

Paradise Research Publications, Inc.; 174 pp.; 6 x 9; perfect bound; 2006; $22.95; ISBN 1-885803-87-7
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The Good Book-Big Book Guidebook
How to Include the Creator’s Impact on Early A.A. in Recovery Today
 

Specially prepared by historian Dick B. as a guide to study groups, recovery programs, sponsors, and individual AAs who want to use the strong points of the A.A. Fellowship, Big Book, and Twelve Steps in conjunction with those vital tools the early AAs took from the Bible and used to achieve their remarkable healings and cures. A practical “how to.” It begins with the newcomer’s beginnings and the appropriate interview, qualification, identification, hospitalization, and launching out with the “absolute essentials” from the Bible’s Book of James, Sermon on the Mount, and 1 Corinthians 13. It shows the importance of viewing a real divinely aided recovery approach in terms of abstinence, resisting temptation, relying on the Creator, accepting Christ, obeying God’s will by living the law of love and eschewing sinful conduct, growing in fellowship with God and His son and believers through Bible study, prayer, seeking guidance, and study of literature, and pursuing the aim of loving and serving the newcomer to the glory of God.

Paradise Research Publications, Inc.; 196 pp.; 6 x 9; perfect bound; 2006; $22.95; ISBN 1-885803-92-3
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A New Way In
Reaching the Heart of a Child of God in Recovery With His Own, Powerful Historical Roots
 

A unique emphasis on tuning the Christian newcomer in toward those roots, principles, and practices which were part and parcel of the original A. A. Christian Fellowship Program in Akron . This to the end that the newcomer and even the old timer Christians will feel comfortable and challenged staying IN the A.A. fellowship, remaining solid in their own religious convictions, buttressed by the knowledge of what the pioneers did with such great success, and simply refusing to be intimidated or persuaded by the idolatry, spirituality, and weird “higher power” chatter abounding in today’s recovery movement. The old-time evangelists like Bill y Sunday and Dwight Moody contended: “The saved should say so.” Similarly, the saved in today’s A.A. Fellowship should stand unfettered by those who intolerantly reject this or that religious belief and argue for a godless unbelieving fellowship. If they want to say so, they need not feel they are violating any rule or tradition or principle; they are simply describing their own salvation and believing.

Paradise Research Publications, Inc.; 96 pp.; 6 x 9; perfect bound; 2006; $21.95; ISBN 1-885803-88-5
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A New Way Out
New Path-Familiar Road Signs-Our Creator’s Guidance

A twist on the “New Way In.” Here author Dick B., in contrast to reaching in to the newcomer, emphasizes that walk-outs FROM A.A. are neither necessary, salutary, or helpful to those who still suffer. When the AA learns the full history of early A.A. and its Christian Fellowship, he should not be impelled to find a way out, to walk out, or simply to cut and run. He leaves behind the fellowship he loves, a fellowship that serves, a program he knows, and a history he has never learned or embraced at the hands of A.A. itself. The foe is intolerance. The way out of intolerance is tolerance. Stated in early A.A. and Biblical terms, the way out of alcoholism and the muck and mire of alcoholic conduct is to love God with all one’s heart, soul, mind, and strength, and one’s neighbor as himself. This is what the A.A. text and writings said very clearly. And it means that no one – Christian, atheist, Muslim, or Jew is serving or glorifying God or A.A. when he throws rocks at religion or when he joins religion in throwing rocks at A.A. The tolerant way out of the wreckage of the past is to recognize A.A. for what it is—not what someone else would have it be or become, not what someone else claims was its original stance, and not a program that was founded on atheism or unbelief. Dr. Bob’s own story in the Big Book ends on page 181 with his comment that he feels sorry for the atheist, skeptic, and critic who can’t accept the simple precepts of A.A. And he promises that our Heavenly Father will never let us down. You don’t reject A.A. You don’t reject religion. And you don’t reject those who believe differently That is the way out. You look up and out at the Creator. You put the trash in the trash can. And you vow to walk in fellowship with God, His son, and His kids.

Paradise Research Publications, Inc.; 94 pp.; 6 x 9; perfect bound; 2006; $21.95; ISBN 1-885803-89-3
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DR. BOB AND HIS LIBRARY
A Major A.A. Spiritual Source
(Third Edition)

Foreword by Ernest Kurtz, Ph.D., Author, Not-God: A History of Alcoholics Anonymous.

A study of the immense spiritual reading of the Bible, Christian literature, and Oxford Group books done and recommended by A.A. co-founder, Dr. Robert H. Smith. 

Paradise Research Publications, Inc.; 156 pp.; 6 x 9; perfect bound; 1998; $15.95; ISBN 1-885803-25-7
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ANNE SMITH'S JOURNAL, 1933-1939
A.A.'s Principles of Success
(Third Edition)

Foreword by Robert R. Smith, son of Dr. Bob & Anne Smith; co-author, Children of the Healer.

Dr. Bob's wife, Anne, kept a journal in the 1930's from which she shared with early AAs and their families ideas from the Bible and the Oxford Group. Her ideas substantially influenced A.A.'s program. 

Paradise Research Publications, Inc.; 180 pp.; 6 x 9; perfect bound; 1998; $16.95; ISBN 1-885803-24-9
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THE OXFORD GROUP &
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
A Design for Living That Works!
(Second Edition)

Foreword by T. Willard Hunter, author, orator, Oxford Group activist in the 1930's and 1940's. 

A comprehensive history of the origins, principles, practices, and contributions to A.A. of "A First Century Christian Fellowship" (also known as The Oxford Group) of which A.A. was an integral part in the developmental period between 1931 and 1939. 

Paradise Research Publications, Inc.; Second Edition; 432 pp.; 6 x 9; perfect bound; 1998; $17.95; ISBN 1-885803-19-2. (Previous title: Design for Living. The Oxford Group's Contribution to Early A.A.)
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