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 ...

I have recently found five versions of the prayer from 1932 and 1933, the earliest of which I believe establishes to a high degree of confidence that Reinhold Niebuhr did originate the Serenity ...

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 ...

According to Everyday Health, “thanks to the fight-or-flight response, we’re engineered to feel anxiety when we’re about to face something that has scared us in the past. It could be ...

The Serenity Prayer can be a powerful tool on our mental health journey, whether we’re dealing with depression, anxiety, addiction, or any other challenging circumstance. While the prayer’s origins ...

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 ...

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.