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 ...

A sobriety medallion used in an addiction recovery program, imprinted with the Serenity Prayer. Joe van petten/Flickr, CC BY-SA. Niebuhr did not believe that prayers should be copyrighted, she ...

Using the Serenity Prayer to Build Trust: So much of recovery—whether it’s from a mental health condition or addiction—involves trusting ourselves, believing we can overcome our challenges.

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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.