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 ...

Alcoholics Anonymous helped make the Serenity Prayer famous, but it was written by one of the 20th century’s most influential theologians, Reinhold Niebuhr I’m not sure when I first ...

Tennis has a Serenity Prayer now, too. It's shorter and it goes like this: Oh my God please let me never have to play Serena Williams 'cause there ain't a danged thing nobody can do when she's ...

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 ...