The origins of the Serenity Prayer, which usually begins with the words, “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change …, ” has been called into question by the alumni magazine at ...

It may be timeless wisdom, but the prayer itself isn't ancient. Roy Morsch/The Image Bank via Getty Images I’m not sure when I first encountered the Serenity Prayer, or when it first occurred to me to ...

In times of trouble, people say the Serenity Prayer in search of peace because it's hard to practice letting go and accept what is in front of you. After all, it's not easy to allow God to handle the ...

Whether you are religious, spiritual, or atheist, you probably can appreciate the profound insights of the “Serenity Prayer.” With slight variations, the prayer is usually recited like this: “God, ...

(RNS) — “Serenity” is not a word many would use to describe the world right now. Perhaps that is why this four-line version of a prayer continues to be uttered as often as it has been since it was ...

The Yale librarian who cast doubt last year on the origins of the Serenity Prayer, adopted by Alcoholics Anonymous and reprinted on countless knickknacks, says new evidence has convinced him to retain ...

(The Conversation) — Alcoholics Anonymous helped make the Serenity Prayer famous, but it was written by one of the 20th century’s most influential theologians, Reinhold Niebuhr. (The Conversation) — I ...

In 2008 I made the front page of The New York Times by asserting that the greatest American theologian of the 20th century, who was also perhaps the greatest American political philosopher of the 20th ...

I’m not sure when I first encountered the Serenity Prayer, or when it first occurred to me to ask who wrote it. For much of my life it never occurred to me that prayers were the kind of things that ...