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 ...

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 ...

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… ...

And patience, another virtue implicit in the serenity prayer, seems nonexistent. Now that I think about it, I think one of my first prayers for tomorrow might be this: “Lord, please give ...

A Jewish accent of the Serenity Prayer accentuates activism, generating goodness at every turn. It insists on transforming devastating wreckage into the scaffolding for something hopeful.

The Serenity Prayer in all of its forms rests on Niebuhr’s hard-won sense of history’s tragic dimension, borne of his experience of two world wars and a global depression.