Many people in early recovery from addiction, alcoholism, gambling and codependency are challenged by philosophical questions such as posed here.

Tightrope  to the Higher Power
“My sponsor was a living damper on my intolerance. But even more, he told me that it would be all right for me to doubt God, that A.A. was not a religious program and, to belong, I did not have to adhere to any set of beliefs.
“He [...]

Calix Society

12-step fellowship of Catholic alcoholics maintaining their sobriety through Alcoholics Anonymous. Concerned with total abstinence, spiritual development and sanctification of the whole personality of each member.

Overcomers Outreach, Inc.

Christ-centered 12-step support group for persons with any compulsive behaviors, as well as their families and friends. Uses the 12-steps of A.A. and applies them to the [...]

We Agnostics
"We used to amuse ourselves by cynically dissecting spiritual beliefs and practices when we might have observed that many spiritually-minded persons of all races, colors, and creeds were demonstrating a degree of stability, happiness and usefulness which we should have sought ourselves.
"Instead, we looked at the human defects of these people, and sometimes used [...]

 
Spirituality is a word used in an abundance of contexts that means

different things for
different people at
different times in
different cultures.

Although expressed through religions, art, nature and the built environment for centuries, recent expressions of spirituality have become more varied and diffuse.
This is reflected in the range of language [...]

AA and Judaism
The fellowships of Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous and Al-Anon are of inestimable value in the recovery from alcoholism and chemical dependency. Not infrequently, there is a resistance on the part of Jews to participate on the grounds that these programs have a religious orientation that is non-Jewish.
Let us first dispense with some [...]

Judaism The Twelve Steps of AA
The essence of Alcoholics Anonymous is contained in the Twelve Steps, the adoption of which is a sine qua non for participation in the fellowship. Much confusion can be eliminated if we look at the compatibility of the steps with Jewish theology.
STEP ONE: We admitted we were powerless over [...]

My name is George and I’m a Jewish alcoholic in AA
A startling, four-color advertising poster appeared some time ago in the New York subways. Staring at the viewer was a “typical Irish cop” about to eat a luscious delicatessen sandwich on Levy’s rye bread, and the legend was “You don’t have to be Jewish to [...]