The Sober Atheist Podcast

Feb 24 2025 19 ep. 57 mins 3
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The Sober Atheist Podcast is a new effort to discuss and expand upon various aspects of Sobriety that relate to the Atheist. The co-hosts, John Huey and Michael Tingley, are both people in long-term recovery from alcohol and/or drugs. These wide ranging conversations will include both original presentations based on newly articulated approaches to recovery and discussions with other sober atheists to present other diverse  perspectives.
 

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19. A Way Forward with Our Australian Friend

Feb 24 2025 58 mins  
Send us a text John Huey and Michael Tingley have a conversation with a prominent person in Australian Secular Recovery, Mick Shiels, who discussed his ideas regarding moving forward there in a fully secular way without reliance on any dogmatic recovery program or movement. You can join Mick every Saturday at 7:00 PM Eastern USA time on Zoom for his new, unaffiliated, Secular Recov

18. Atheism, Recovery and the Question of Human Evil

Feb 02 2025 58 mins  
Send us a text Pure human evil has manifested itself here in the United States. How can an atheist in recovery deal with it? John Huey and Michael Tingley discuss this dire situation.

17. Atheism, the Creative Process and Recovery

Jan 17 2025 59 mins  
Send us a text John Huey and Michael Tingley discuss how the creative process, in their own artistic endeavors, was impacted by their atheism as it combined with their experiences with addiction and recovery. Some information about their artistic endeavors can be viewed on Huey’s web site, john-huey.com and on Tingley’s Instagram page @tingleymichaelart.

16. Why Am I an Atheist and What Did That Fact Have to Do with My Recovery?

Dec 10 2024 60 mins  
Send us a text John Huey and Michael Tingley discuss a general (global) rather than a specific question about how atheism figures into recovery and how it does not. How does atheism figure into life in general and how did it support our world view when young and now that we have more perspective, how has that world view changed in terms of our recovery? A “philosophical” discus

15. How do Atheists in Recovery Cope with the New Reactionary Reality in the United States

Nov 11 2024 57 mins  
Send us a text John Huey and Michael Tingley discuss the possible fallout from the recent US Presidential Election considering the potential negative effects on atheists in general and non-believers in recovery in particular.

14. A Sober Atheist Experience in Music and in Life

Oct 23 2024 59 mins  
Send us a text John Huey and Michael Tingley have a most illuminating conversation with a very old friend, prominent Seattle musician and lifelong atheist, Mark Dalton. It is a great story that is told from the perspective of over 40 years of productive recovery.

13. Atheism as Affirmation - Part 2

Sep 26 2024 45 mins  
Send us a text This is a live recording of John Huey at a workshop session at the ICSAA Conference in Orlando FL on September 20, 2024. This is a continuation of the theme developed for Episode 5, Atheism as Affirmation in Sobriety.

12. Atheism, Hope and the Promotion of Misery in Conventional Recovery Programs

Sep 19 2024 59 mins  
Send us a text John Huey and Michael Tingley discuss the promotion of feelings of helplessness and hopelessness as entry points in many recovery programs, both Religious and Secular. This was best embodied by a comment overheard at a meeting, “When I went there, I had an overwhelming sense of learned helplessness.”

11. Loss of Program Friends – How does the Atheist in Recovery Cope?

Aug 20 2024 59 mins  
Send us a text John Huey and Michael Tingley discuss how to deal with both the death of long-time sober program friends and the emotions associated with dealing with the loss of people we know who don't achieve a lasting recovery and then either expire or disappear.

10. A Conversation About AA with an Old Friend

Jul 22 2024 60 mins  
Send us a text John Huey and Michael Tingley, both former AA members, talk to Dennis Walsh, a longtime friend in recovery and a person still active in AA, about several issues he thinks we have misconstrued regarding that program.