MANY YEARS AGO…THANK GOD –
June 10, 2026 – The outcome was the establishment of A.A., which today has more than 123,000 groups worldwide in 180 countries. In 2021, A.A. estimated there were nearly two million members worldwide. At 38, Bill W.’s successful career on Wall Street had been ruined by chronic alcoholism…
After multiple hospital visits for his drinking, he was introduced to the transformative help of a religious movement called the Oxford Group through a former college drinking buddy, Edwin ‘Ebby’ Thacher, (Ebby T.). The Oxford Group “practiced a formula of self-improvement by performing self-inventory, admitting wrongs, making amends, using prayer and meditation, and carrying the message to others.” By December 1934, practicing these principles helped Bill W. stop drinking.
