More than 60 years ago, a New York stockbroker named Bill Wilson visited a physician named Bill Wilson visited a physician named Robert Smith in a hospital in Akron, Ohio. “Dr. Bob” was a patient in the detoxification for chronic alcoholics; Wilson was newly recovering from that same disease. As they spoke, Bob began to see hope for his own life, and Bill who had been tempted to drink that day grew more confident in his own sobriety. Something about that meeting between two hopeless men was healing and helpful. That […]
