Chronicle of Higher Education Article on Serenity Prayer

[Shapiro, Fred]

Some on this list may remember my publicity in 2008-2009 concerning the question of whether Reinhold Niebuhr wrote the "Serenity Prayer."  I have now found new information that seems very strongly to point to Niebuhr as the originator.  I wrote an article about the new findings in the Chronicle of Higher Education.  ADS-L's own Stephen Goranson, who was the first to bring forth a very early attribution to Niebuhr, is mentioned.

http://chronicle.com/article/Who-Wrote-the-Serenity-Prayer-/146159/

The Huffington Post has just picked up the story.  Ben Zimmer has also written about it in Visual Thesaurus.

Fred

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