Okay, I can't believe I am only seeing this subforum now since I was one of the people who recommended doing it on the forum questionnaire thing. I guess I am not too quick. But, awesome I am so glad it is here.
I wanted to bring up a book I just finished. In the first few months I was burning through recovery books. Burning. A book every few days. But this book, the
Spirituality of Imperfection by Ernest Kurtz I read over a much longer period of time, maybe a month or two. At the beginning it frustrated me because I thought it was poorly written, but now I think that I just might not have been paying enough attention at the start or something, because by the end of it I really loved it.
It fleshes out the spirituality of AA while talking about how those same concepts are found amongst many spiritual and religious traditions. However, it is not really about the dogmatic AA or even the steps but about this concept of man accepting his imperfection and through that his humanity. It also talks about how spirituality is transmitted through stories and storytelling. I'm going to go get the book and get some good quotes.
Has anyone else ever read it? Or his other book Not-God?
Here is the link to the book at Amazon. I always like reading the reviews for the book. I am sure they describe it better than I can:
Amazon.com: The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning: Ernest Kurtz, Katherine Ketcham: Books