From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
MINISTER occurs
6 times
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1.
... minister, and
close friends.
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
He also
wanted to tell others who had
tried to
help him -- his
doctor, his
minister, and
close friends.
2.
... minister, or
rabbi.
BB p.87,
Into Action
Suggestions about these may be
obtained from one's
priest,
minister, or
rabbi.
3.
... minister, or
rabbi, who gives his all ...
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
He may bring new
hope and new
courage to many a
priest,
minister, or
rabbi, who
gives his all to
minister to our
troubled world.
4.
... minister's son.
BB p.56,
We Agnostics
Our
friend was a
minister's
son.
5.
... minister to
our troubled world.
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
He may bring new
hope and new
courage to many a
priest,
minister, or
rabbi, who
gives his all to
minister to our
troubled world.
6.
... minister who
sighs over the sins of ...
BB p.61,
How It Works
He is like the
retired business man who
lolls in the
Florida sunshine in the
winter complaining of the
sad state of the
nation; the
minister who
sighs over the
sins of the
twentieth century;
politicians
and
reformers who are
sure all would be
Utopia if the
rest of the
world would only
behave; the
outlaw safe cracker who
thinks society has
wronged him; and the
alcoholic who has
lost all
and is
locked up.
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