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 ...

The version of events most often cited in biographies of the theologian is that after Niebuhr used the prayer in a sermon in rural Massachusetts, a neighbor who was an Episcopal priest asked for ...

In the early ’30s in the popular summer getaway of Heath, Mass., one of the seasonal residents was preparing a guest sermon for a local church. The sermon was too short, so the resident &#821… ...

(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 ...

Most of us have heard The Serenity Prayer: 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. As a lifelong ...

The prayer was popularized by Alcoholics Anonymous, whose version of it reads: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and wisdom to ...

The 1932 partial Serenity Prayer is the data point that clinches the argument for “R.N.” (Reinhold Niebuhr) as Wygal’s source for the prayer and as its originator.

(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.