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In the News (Fri 18 Dec 09)

  
  Oxford Group influences on AA, written by Dick B.
This was the joy for me, as an active AA and a long-time researcher, in examining the two, related groups together and filling in the long-misreported Oxford Group part of the “religious” nature and content of our recovery program.
The difficulty with their renditions is that they are only partial clearly omit examination of the words and writings of the Oxford Group leaders of the 1920's and early 1930's.
And there must be nearly one hundred articles by rank and file Oxford Group people, telling what they do, what they believe, and how their lives have been changed through acceptance of Christ and establishing fellowship with God and other believers.
www.prohibitionists.org /Related_Orgs/Oxford-Group-Influences-Oct-2003.htm   (4151 words)

  
 The Oxford Group Connection
The Oxford Group and their principles were carried to the United States so that in both New York City and Akron, Ohio an Oxford Group was in place and functioning when Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith hit their respective bottoms.
These two groups would befriend and teach their principles to our co-founders before they ever met, and then go on to host the fledgling groups of newly dry and nameless drunks as they came together.
These were groups of important men who made attempts to convert others to the Oxford Group method of spirituality.
www.winternet.com /~terrym/oxford.html   (3637 words)

  
 Oxford Group, Frank ND Buchman information page
By the 1920s and '30s, his Oxford Group and fourpoint doctrine of absolute honesty, absolute purity, absolute unselfishness and absolute love were household words.
By the 1930s the Oxford Group, named for the many graduates of the British university who were its members, held what were called ''house parties'' for several thousand people at country homes of the gentry.
The low point for the Oxford Group came in 1936 when Buchman made some favorable comments about Adolf Hitler, suggesting the German dictator had done a service by stopping communism and that a man with absolute power, if he became a Christian, could solve the world's problems.
www.aabibliography.com /oxfordsteps.html   (2105 words)

  
 The Religious Roots of The Twelve Steps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Members of the Groups assure me that in their own experience they have seen nothing of the sort, but I cannot help feeling that they have been singularly fortunate in that regard; for there is not lacking evidence that sometimes, at least, things have happened in this connection to cause grave concern.
The group had ostensibly clearly heard God's Will during their first "Quiet Time", and such Guidance was supposed to be nearly infallible, but when Frank Buchman came in and contradicted them, the whole group changed its opinion of "God's Will" in a minute.
The Oxford Group's aim ever since the last war has been to give a whole new pattern for statesmanship and a whole new level of responsible thinking -- faculties only given to men who are living under God's guidance, who are changed through daily contact with God and through daily obedience to God.
www.orange-papers.org /orange-religiousroots.html   (19074 words)

  
 Oxford Diocese Group:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Oxford group met on 24 January to reflect on their November meeting with Andrew Goddard of Wycliffe Hall.
He had also spoken to and written to the Bishop of Oxford congratulating him on his speech to the Diocesan Synod, in which he had expressed his desire that the diocese be a “gay-friendly diocese”.
It was felt that the group needed to take a firmer stance and, for example, issue a press release to local newspapers in the Oxford diocese.
www.changingattitude.org /contacts_info_oxford.html   (557 words)

  
 West Oxford Wildlife Group - Tumbling Bay Renovation Project
The growing population of early 19th century Oxford added to the numbers of people using and abusing the Thames and Cherwell and respectable folk out for riverside walks took exception to the hordes of nude men and boys they saw along the way.
Oxford City Council opened its first river bathing place on a side stream in St. Ebbe's in 1846 and Tumbling Bay was the second, opening in 1853.
The West Oxford Wildlife Group, affiliated to the West Oxford Community Association, is now carrying on the Friends' role and it is currently trying to raise funds to rebuild the footbridge and manage the site for its wildlife value.
www.oxfordsoftwaredocumentation.com /wowg/tumbling_bay.html   (1571 words)

  
 The Oxford Group Connection
The Oxford Group and their principles were carried to the United States so that in both New York City and Akron, Ohio an Oxford Group was in place and functioning when Bill W. and Dr. Bob S. hit their respective bottoms.
Buchman sent him to meet Sam Shoemaker at the Calvary Church an d he made an Oxford Group confession to Sam and was led to join one of the Oxford Group business teams.
A gifted and compassionate lady named Henrietta Seiberling, who had mastered some of the Oxford group principles, had her eye on using the biblical principles to help her good friend, Dr. Bob S., with his drinking problem.
silkworth.net /aahistory/oxford_group_connection.html   (3773 words)

  
 Gentran, TLE, Harbinger, GXS EDI Consulting
Oxford Consulting Group is a professional services firm dedicated to helping our clients reposition themselves to compete in the digital economy.
Oxford’s ongoing success is a result of using skilled consultants and leveraging our experience, to guarantee customer satisfaction.
Oxford Consulting Group, Inc. 30 Northwoods Blvd, Columbus, OH 43235 - Toll free: (866) 595-6700 Fax: (614) 310-2705 - info@oxford-consulting.com
www.oxford-consulting.com   (286 words)

  
 The Oxford Group and Alcoholics Anonymous
And, most assuredly, the Oxford Group is not A.A. In fact, the development of the Oxford Group since publication of the Big Book has taken Oxford Group activities to a totally different place than it took A.A. in the period about 1938, just before the Big Book was written.
There was no "Oxford Group" prior to the time the press gave a tiny group of travelers in Africa the Oxford "group" name in 1928.
Some criticisms: Brown’s The Oxford Movement: Is it of God or of Satan ; Dinger’s Moral Re-Armament: A Study of Its Technical and Religious Nature in the Light of Catholic Teaching ; Hensley’s The Oxford Groups ; Niebuhr’s Christianity and Power Politics ; Van Baalen’s The Chaos of Cults ; and Williamson’s Inside Buchmanism.
silkworth.net /aahistory/oxford_group_connection5.html   (1970 words)

  
 Alcoholics Anonymous History and the Bible: "The Oxford Group & Alcoholics Anonymous" by Dick B.
A.A. was an integral part of the Oxford Group in the early 1930's, and this book contains the only study of the Oxford Group's contributions to early A.A.'s Big Book, Twelve Steps, and Fellowship.
You will find here the Oxford Group's Biblical roots, the origin of its ideas, details on its beliefs and practices, its influence on early A.As and their high success rate, and where its concepts can be found in today's A.A. Foreword by Rev. T.
Willard Hunter; author, columnist, Oxford Group activist; former Assistant to the President of the School of Theology at Claremont, California.
www.dickb.com /Oxford.shtml   (428 words)

  
 Oxford Vegetarians
We are a local voluntary group whose aim is to promote the vegetarian/vegan diet to the moral, physical, environmental and economic benefit of humankind.
article on the history of the group), and is run by a voluntary committee.
Oxford Vegetarians are a member society of the International Vegetarian Union.
www.ivu.org /oxveg   (393 words)

  
 The Oxford Chant Group
A group of Oxford Scholars, led by Professor John Caldwell, and known as the Oxford Chant Group, is establishing a database of western medieval chant melodies.
Affiliated to Cantus Planus, the official Chant Group of the International Musicological Society, the Oxford scholars are attempting to encode the information contained in the earliest written form of chant melodies.
The Group has also established a link with Harvard University, where a research programme is underway to develop optical scanning in particular as a fast method of encoding neumatic information.
www.music.ox.ac.uk /Oxchant   (292 words)

  
 Oxford Research Group critical of Bush war plans
According to British foreign policy analysis institute, war with Iraq is likely to result in the deaths of many thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians, carries a high risk of the use of weapons of mass destruction, and will lead to substantial regional instability and increased support for al-Qaida.
The worrisome outcomes of a major conflict in Iraq are detailed in a comprehensive report from Professor Paul Rogers of Bradford University, one of the foremost authorities on international security and a consultant to the Oxford Research Group.
Support for such groups would rise, with an increased risk of further paramilitary attacks on the U.S. and other states involved in the war.
salt.claretianpubs.org /sjnews/2002/11/sjn0211f.html   (590 words)

  
 BBC News | Sci/Tech | Oxford group will rethink the environment
Thinking the unthinkable - or at least the unthought - is the stock-in-trade of an unusual and powerful group starting work on 18 September.
It is the Oxford Commission on Sustainable Consumption (OCSC), based in and set up by the university's Mansfield College, and chaired by a former United Kingdom Environment Secretary, John Gummer.
Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics and Society
news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_449000/449455.stm   (485 words)

  
 Luminescence Research Group - School of Geography and the Environment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
She will be working with the Oxford Luminescence Research Group from the 1st of October for two years.
Luminescence research has been conducted in Oxford since the early 1960's, initially at the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, under the directorship of Professor Martin Aitken.
In 1997, the luminescence group in the School of Geography and the Environment was established by Dr Stephen Stokes.
www.geog.ox.ac.uk /research/luminescence   (1019 words)

  
 Alcoholics Anonymous
The Oxford Group of the 1920s and 1930s, founded by Dr. Frank N.D. Buchman, was a loosely organized group who recognized no board of officers.
In addition to groups closely and successfully modeled on AA such as Workaholics Anonymous founded in 1983, Gamblers Anonymous started in 1957, and Overeaters Anonymous from 1960, other AA inspired organizations are less recovery oriented and instead capitalize on the fellowship and sharing principles of AA.
In the Oxford Group these steps were used as a cure for sin; Bill W. and Dr. Bob later adapted them to serve as a cure for alcoholism (Bufe: 62).
religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/aa.html   (5685 words)

  
 Chemical Crystallography Oxford: Group Definitions
For complicated structures it is sometimes useful to define GROUPS of atoms which can be referred to as a whole later.
This is the main header command and is followed by the name of the group.
Note that it is not possible to have group names that begin with GROUP itself - g1, g2 are valid names but group1, group2 are not.
www.ccp14.ac.uk /ccp/web-mirrors/crystals/cameron-20.html   (524 words)

  
 Oxford LHCb homepage
The principal interest of the Oxford group is the Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detectors (RICH).
Oxford group members are also actively involved in the UK Grid programme for LHC computing.
Physics studies, researching the properties of B decays and how they can best be used to measure CP violation parameters, are an important part of the Oxford group's work.
www-pnp.physics.ox.ac.uk /~lhcb   (410 words)

  
 Alcoholics Anonymous Roots
The founders of AA were involved in the Oxford Group movement during the early days, but there is no record of either Bill Wilson or Bob Smith professing Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord or as the only way to the Father.
The Oxford Group was a nondenominational evangelical movement, streamlined for the modern world and then at the height of its very considerable success.
Members of the Oxford Group primarily found their guidance from within rather than from a creed or the Bible.
www.psychoheresy-aware.org /aaroots.html   (1940 words)

  
 Oxford Multisensory Group Home Page
University Laboratory of Physiology at the University of Oxford to the Department of Psychology at the University of Bath.
The group is also affiliated with the Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain at the
Specific interests of the group include audio-visual, visuo-tactile and visual-olfactory integration, crossmodal plasticity and reorganisation.
www.physiol.ox.ac.uk /Research_Groups/Multisensory   (204 words)

  
 Oxford Reading Group - A book group who meet montly in Oxfordshire
Oxford Reading Group are a group of people from the Oxford area who have been getting together once a month to discuss books - and other things - since the summer of 2002.
Our group is currently full, but you are most welcome to join our waiting list.
We can let you know when any vacancies appear or put you in touch with other people who are interested in forming a group.
www.oxfordreadinggroup.co.uk   (111 words)

  
 WGR GHG group homepage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
We are a computational chemistry research group in the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory at the Department of Chemistry, Oxford University.
There are also comprehensive lists of resources and links, and you can even discover the level of success that group members achieve after leaving the group.
Group member Mike Nagle (with help from Ben Webb, Keith Davies, Karl Harrison and ChemSymphony) has written a website where you can design your own anti-cancer drug and test it against a variety of targets using the screensaver software.
bellatrix.pcl.ox.ac.uk   (270 words)

  
 The Oxford Group Connection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Years later, Sam became the minister of that Calvary Church in New York, and that same churc h became the titular headquarters for the Oxford Group in the United States.
He was visited by three men from an Oxford Group; Shep C., Rowland H., and Cebra Graves.
The Rev. Walter Tunks was Harvey Firestone 's minister, and Firestone had brought Buchman and thirty Oxford Group members to Akron for ten days in gratitude for their help for his son, Russell, a drunkard.
www.midlandaa.org /AAhistory/oxford_group.html   (3695 words)

  
 Oxford Group Ltd.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Oxford Financial Advisors Corporation is a Registered Investment Advisor with the Securities and Exchange Commission and a nationally recognized authority in an increasingly complex field.
We are one of the few fee-only financial and investment advisory firms in the Midwest, helping clients in several states meet and exceed their financial goals.
The Trust Company of Oxford is a wholly owned subsidiary of Oxford Financial Advisors Corporation, and is a private, non-custodial, independent, fee-only (no products) trust company devoted exclusively to personal trust services.
company.monster.com /og   (135 words)

  
 Oxford City Council: Group visits   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Museum of Oxford offers a wide range of workshops and activities for visiting groups from primary schools to Foreign Language schools.
Combine your visit to the Museum of Oxford with a visit to the Oxford Story and save 75p on individual venue admission prices.
Gallery worksheets are available covering a variety of time periods for self-guided groups to tour the museum.
www.oxford.gov.uk /tourism/museum-group-visits.cfm   (492 words)

  
 Oxford Technology Group
Oxford Technology Group is an information systems support company providing complete network design, implementation and support services to local businesses that need the expertise of an Information Systems professional.
Oxford Technology Group can set up and maintain a cost-effective and efficient network that meets the specific needs of your business.
Oxford Technology Group will audit and evaluate your entire computer network...
www.oxfordtechnologygroup.com   (164 words)

  
 Oxford Adaptive Canoe Group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Oxford Adaptive Canoe Group was formed to enable people to enjoy Canadian canoeing in a friendly, relaxed and supportive manner.
The group's aims are to develop the paddling skills of volunteers, with the ultimate goal of offering disabled people an opportunity to enjoy canoeing.
The group is run by and for disabled and non-disabled people.
www.adaptivecanoeing.org.uk   (79 words)

  
 Oxford - Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
One of North America's largest commercial real estate investment firms, Oxford Properties Group owns and manages a portfolio of prime Office, Retail, Industrial and Multi-Family Residential properties across Canada, and holds interests in real estate assets abroad.
Oxford is an Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) company.
Oxford manages $10 billion of real estate on behalf of our co-owners, and owns $6 billion in real estate at share.
www.oxfordproperties.com   (76 words)

  
 IAM Oxford Group - Advanced Driving in Oxfordshire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Oxford IAM meetings from October to April usually feature a speaker.
These groups then jump into the Observer's car and whisked off into the countryside on a demonstration drive.
This is a great opportunity to find out what advanced driving is all about and to talk to the Observers who give their time free of charge, offering advice and encouragement to Associate members to help them through the advanced test.
iam-oxford.org.uk   (178 words)

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