You’ve likely heard the Serenity Prayer − but not its backstory
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 ...
CENTER FOR LIFELONG LEARNING: Spring begins to wind down the class schedule
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to ...
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Remembering Niebuhr, Champion of Truth against Ideology
Reinhold Niebuhr might not be a familiar name to today’s younger Americans, but Journey Films is hoping to change that with a documentary to be released next month. An American Conscience ...
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Reinhold Niebuhr - American Writers 31: University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers
2 Man has always been his most vexing problem. How shall he think of himself?” These are the opening lines of the Gifford Lectures which Reinhold Niebuhr delivered at the University of Edinburgh in ...
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Time (Again) for a Niebuhrian Revival
Time will tell. But Reinhold Niebuhr understood the “ironies of history.” Might it be Donald Trump, of all people, to be the one who brings us just a bit closer to that long hoped for ...
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Reinhold Niebuhr
During his lifetime, Reinhold Niebuhr was one of the best-known Christian intellectual in the United States. Ordained as a minister in the German Evangelical Synod of North America in 1913, Neibuhr ...
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You’ve likely heard the Serenity Prayer − but not its backstory
(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 ...