#question of the day: anyone familiar with resources on how #Alcoholics Anonymous and other #TwelveStep programs evolved out of the #OxfordGroups?

I finished reading a biography of Frank Buchman, who founded the Oxford Groups (an explicitly #Christian organization) and the relationship is discussed briefly.

According to the biography, the founders of AA were originally members of OG and the book portrays split as amicable.

I'd like to understand more deeply AA's roots and evolution

#history

I'm addressing folks at an #Israeli - based #TwelveStep recovery meeting in about an hour, and I will be in #Hijab. Interesting times!

Unknown to me when I accepted to speak, it also happens to be #Jewish #Shavuot today... which is the commemoration of when #Musa (AS) (Moses) received the #Tawrat (Torah). In Islam we recognize Musa as a prophet and the Tawrat as one of the revealed Books of Allah SWT. See Quran 3:3 (https://quran.com/3/3).

So today we can find some common ground, which can be hard to do when the representatives of the Israeli settler state, backed by US and European #Imperialists, are persecuting #Palestinians every day.

Will I be mentioning any of this in a 12 Step meeting? No, it's off-topic for a recovery meeting. But privately I'm taking the "coincidence" as an auspicious sign that Allah SWT favors my sharing at this meeting.