From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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Clergymen and
doctors alike rallied to the ...
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
Clergymen and doctors alike rallied to the new movement, giving it unstinted support and endorsement.
2.
... clergymen, doctors,
friends, and families, the alcoholic ...
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
To clergymen, doctors, friends, and families, the
alcoholic who means well and tries hard is a heartbreaking
riddle.
3.
... clergymen, from
which we may hope to ...
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
To be sure, we feel it is something that might help us
to meet an occasional emergency, but at first many of us are apt to regard it as a somewhat mysterious skill of clergymen, from which we may hope to
get a secondhand benefit.
4.
... clergymen got
no place with my alcoholism.
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
Change of scene, the best efforts of family, friends, doctors, and clergymen got no place
with my alcoholism.
5.
Clergymen of
practically every denomination have given ...
BB p.572(574),
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.
6.
Clergymen see
articles in their church journals ...
12&12 p.180,
Tradition Eleven
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