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 ...

As a child, I memorized without understanding a short prayer on a plaque in my grandparents’ guest bedroom. I loved the curlicued lettering and somber tone. Later, I learned that the “Serenity ...

Elisabeth Sifton is the daughter of American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, who wrote the Serenity Prayer. The prayer appeals for grace, courage and wisdom. It has become a mantra of Alcoholics ...

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.

The prayer was the Serenity Prayer, commonly quoted as follows: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the ...

The prayer began, “O God, give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed.” He delivered the sermon, the bulk of which was lost to the ages, but a summer neighbor asked him for a copy of the ...

But I must confess I have some doubts. I have some difficulty associating Trump with either serenity or wisdom. And patience, another virtue implicit in the serenity prayer, seems nonexistent.

(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.