http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/us/11prayer.html
New York Times
11 July 2008
Serenity Prayer Stirs Up Doubt: Who Wrote It?
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
Generations of recovering alcoholics, soldiers, weary parents, exploited workers and just about anybody feeling beaten down by life have found solace in a short prayer that begins, "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change."
Now the Serenity Prayer is about to endure a controversy over its authorship that is likely to be anything but serene. [...]
[Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr claimed he wrote the prayer sometime in the 1940s, but Fred Shapiro, a law librarian at Yale, has found versions of it going as far back as 1936.]
New York Times
11 July 2008
Serenity Prayer Stirs Up Doubt: Who Wrote It?
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
Generations of recovering alcoholics, soldiers, weary parents, exploited workers and just about anybody feeling beaten down by life have found solace in a short prayer that begins, "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change."
Now the Serenity Prayer is about to endure a controversy over its authorship that is likely to be anything but serene. [...]
[Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr claimed he wrote the prayer sometime in the 1940s, but Fred Shapiro, a law librarian at Yale, has found versions of it going as far back as 1936.]
http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2008_07/serenity.html
Yale Alumni Magazine
July/August 2008
Who wrote the Serenity Prayer?
The inspiring text -- long attributed to an eminent theologian -- may have deeper roots than we thought.
by Fred R. Shapiro
Who wrote the Serenity Prayer?
The inspiring text -- long attributed to an eminent theologian -- may have deeper roots than we thought.
by Fred R. Shapiro
[Elisabeth Sifton's response follows Shapiro's article.]
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