Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) adopted the Serenity Prayer in 1941. An AA member discovered it in The New York Herald Tribune, and persuaded then-secretary Ruth Hick to have wallet-sized copies of the ...

(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. (The ...

The meeting began with what I came to learn is the AA Preamble. The one line I recall is: “The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking.” Then came the Serenity Prayer. “Here we go ...

I’m not sure when I first encountered the Serenity Prayer ... with 12-step recovery programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous. There, the prayer serves as a reminder both of human limits and ...

The meeting began with what I came to learn is the AA Preamble. The one line I recall is: “The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking.” Then came the Serenity Prayer.

and from there it eventually migrated to Alcoholics Anonymous. Niebuhr did not believe that prayers should be copyrighted, she writes, and never profited from its popularity – though friends would ...

It may be timeless wisdom, but the prayer itself isn't ancient. Roy Morsch/The Image Bank via Getty Images ...

His daughter, Elisabeth Sifton, recounts the story in her book “The Serenity Prayer ... and from there it eventually migrated to Alcoholics Anonymous. Niebuhr did not believe that prayers ...