Our Four Basic Pillars
Our Twelve Step Fellowships
We are committed to our individual 12-Step Fellowships, with no intention of leaving them, attempting to change them, or seeking to create a substitute for them.
Suggested Readings:
We recommended the following basic texts knowing that most will be quite familiar with them already.
The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
Other literature specific to your own 12-Step Fellowship if it is not AA.
Our Original Pioneer Program
We are committed to the study and practice of AA’s Pioneer program as it originated within the Oxford Group. We aspire to grow through our practice of Two Way Prayer and the Four Standards of Honesty, Purity, Unselfishness, and Love.
Suggested Readings:
Dr. Bob and the Good Oldtimers
New Light on Alcoholism: God, Sam Shoemaker, and AA by Dick B.
For Sinners Only: The Book of the Oxford Groups by A.J. Russell – or – On the Tail of a Comet: The Life of Frank Buchman
The Power of Two Way Prayer: Finding New Meaning in Addiction Recovery and Spiritual Growth by Father Bill W. (June 2025)
Our Joining of Psychology with Spirituality
We are committed to enhancing our spiritual growth through the study and practice of depth psychology. This includes inner child work, dream analysis, active imagination, and shadow work along with other effective tools and practices.
Suggested Readings:
Inner Work by Robert A. Johnson
Ego and Archetype by Edward Edinger
Carl Jung: An Unexpected Mystic by Richard Rohr
Our Place Within the Emerging Church
We are committed to working within the Episcopal / Anglican Church as “monks in the modern world” in service to those in 12-Step Fellowships. We are exploring new expressions of recovery and meaningful worship. While our community is rooted firmly within the Christian tradition, we welcome spiritual seekers of other faiths and denominations to join us on our journey.
Suggested Readings:
The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why by Phyllis Tickle
A New Monastic Handbook by Ian Mobsby and Mark Berry
The Big Book of Christian Mysticism by Carl McColman
A Testament of Devotion by Thomas R. Kelly
Our Present and Future Direction
Knowing individually the greater sense of peace and purpose that has come to us from the seeking and following God’s will, we believe that our new community must rest on the secure foundation of finding and following God’s will communally; therefore, all decisions regarding our formation and functioning are brought to God in prayer and shared with the community through an ongoing and evolving process of discernment. We remain very much “a work in progress.”
As with the Oxford Group, we have no requirements for membership other than a desire to join in this spiritual journey and commit to discerning and following God’s will, found through a group conscience and expressed through love and service.
We have each discerned a particular guided work that helps the community fulfill its mission of advancing the practice of Two Way Prayer among members of all the 12 Step Fellowships.