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You’ve likely heard the Serenity Prayer − but not its backstory

  • Written by Scott Paeth, Professor of Religious Studies, DePaul University
imageIt may be timeless wisdom, but the prayer itself isn't ancient.Roy Morsch/The Image Bank via Getty Images

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 my life it never occurred to me that prayers were the kind of things that people actually wrote down, especially...

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