Niebuhr wrote it in 1943. Sifton's new book about her father and the circumstances that led to the prayer is The Serenity Prayer: Faith and Politics in Times of Peace and War.

The Serenity Prayer can help us free up mental space, take responsibility for our actions, seek wisdom, [and] inspire us to operate differently and more effectively in our lives,” says Young.

You know the so-called Serenity Prayer, beloved of twelve-steppers, right?: God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, The courage to ch ...

THE SERENITY PRAYER: Faith and Politics in Times of Peace and War Elisabeth Sifton, . . Norton, $24.95 (367pp) ISBN 978-0-393-05746-1 ...

As popular as it is, few people seem to know or even care about the origin and authorship of the Serenity Prayer. It was conceived in a little stone cottage in Heath, Massachusetts, by theologian ...

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 my life it never occurred to me that prayers were the kind of things ...

(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.