Over the years, Dick has been interviewed on many radio shows, both
Christian and secular—always on the subject of early A.A. history
and successes and its Biblical roots. He’s appeared on community
television. Many of his talks at conferences and seminars have been
taped and are available from such sources as Smile God Loves You and
Glenn K. Audio Tapes. For the last year, Dick has
been presenting audio talks on his blog site (http://www.dickb-blog.com),
and these have been widely heard. On this radio page, however, you
will hear Dick live on the shows that are listed and particularly on
his two shows—Recovery Broadcasting and Take 12. These are ongoing.
Recovery Broadcasting presents a weekly talk by Dick on items he has
already had recorded. Take 12 presents ongoing weekly interviews of
Dick by Monty. What are the subjects? If it has to do with A.A.
history, you’ll find it: Dick has been acclaimed as the leading A.A.
history scholar and historian today. He continues his research and
writing, has published 27 titles, 130 articles, and the audio
materials. They cover A.A. and the Creator; the Bible roots; The
James Club and the Original Program’s Absolute Essentials;
Quiet Time and meditation; prayer; Bible study;
healing; Jesus Christ; Yahweh our God; Anne Ripley Smith and her
Journal; the Oxford Group life-changing program; the teachings and
role of Rev. Sam Shoemaker; the Four Absolutes; United Christian
Endeavor Society—the major Akron root; Big Book origins, 12 Step
origins, and Akron origins; the cure of alcoholism; God and
alcoholism; the nonsense gods—higher power, radiators, rocks, and
door knobs; the phoney “spirituality” detour; Dr. William D.
Silkworth, Bill
Wilson, and “The Great Physician;” Dr. Carl Gustav Jung; Professor
William James; “The Common Sense of Drinking” by Peabody; the New
Thought writers and writings of Trine, Fox, James, and others;
Henrietta Seiberling; the early devotionals such as the Upper Room,
The Runner’s Bible, and My Utmost for His Highest; the host of books
Dr. Bob read and circulated on healing, prayer, Bible study, love,
the Sermon on the Mount, 1 Corinthians 13; the major A.A. history
collections at the GriffithLibrary in East
Dorset, Vermont, the Shoemaker Collection at Calvary Episcopal
Church in Pittsburgh, St. Paul’s Church in Akron, Ray G.’s traveling
archives; the largest bibliography of A.A. sourcebooks in existence
outside the Library of Congress; and many many more. There is no
body of work on A.A. like this anywhere else. And now you can hear
it from Dick’s own talks—the kind he has given at The Wilson House
for a decade, at Archives International, at the first two nationwide
A.A. history conferences, on the new A.A. history cruises, in Akron
and Pittsburgh, California, and Hawaii, and at numerous
retreats—Protestant and Roman Catholic—for AAs and their families
including the Clarence Snyder retreats in Wisconsin, Florida, and
California. It’s all free. It is all encompassing. And it’s new—the
product of 16 years of research, travel, and writing.
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