The Twelve Steps began as a program for people with a drinking problem. Richard Rohr reads them step by step as a Christian spiritual path and argues that nearly everyone has something to recover from.
Readical Key Points
- A Christian reading of the Twelve Steps, taking each step in turn
- Foreword by Anne Lamott
- Combines biblical teaching, psychology and Rohr's pastoral experience
- Addresses addiction and recovery directly, from a Christian perspective
- Paperback, 176 pages, Convergent Books, 2026
Rohr, a Franciscan friar, pairs each step with biblical passages and contemplative Christian teaching. He argues that addiction is common to everyone, not a sign of individual moral weakness, and that the same pull shows up in compulsive behavior and stubborn ways of thinking, not only in alcohol and drugs. In his reading, the first step's admission of powerlessness is the opening of the spiritual life, not a defeat.
It serves people working a Twelve Step program, the families and sponsors beside them, and readers of contemplative Christian writing. It is a book of spiritual reflection, not a clinical guide or a substitute for treatment. Rohr's subject is not only the bottle. It is any grip a person cannot loosen alone.
About the Author
Richard Rohr is a Franciscan friar and the founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is the author of many books, including the New York Times bestseller The Universal Christ.
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