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 ...

AA learned of the Serenity Prayer in 1941, but Sifton’s book called its formulation a “dumbing down of the prayer.” In reality, ...

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 ...

Between rumination over the past, and worry over the future, is acceptance. Getty. There is a prayer, often linked with Alcoholic’s Anonymous (AA), called the serenity prayer, which reads ...

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 ...

The prayer is attributed to American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 - 1971) and is often used to begin and end 12-Step Meetings such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Al-Anon.

(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.