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The Serenity Prayer Faith and Politics in Times of Peace and War

Elisabeth Sifton

A landmark work on the liberal ideals of the progressive American tradition, reaffirming their relevance for today: "A major contribution to the intellectual history of modernity."―Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. In 1943, the renowned theologian Reinhold Niebuhr wrote a prayer for a church service in a New...

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This book was mentioned as being written by Reinhold Niebuhr's daughter, Elizabeth Sifton, concerning her father's famous Serenity Prayer and its evolution.

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But actually, if you listen to Reinhold Niebuhr's daughter, who was named Elizabeth Sifton, she did not grow up to be a minister herself, but she did grow up to be a very famous editor, and she was al...

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This book was mentioned as being written by Reinhold Niebuhr's daughter, Elizabeth Sifton, concerning her father's famous Serenity Prayer and its evolution.

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But actually, if you listen to Reinhold Niebuhr's daughter, who was named Elizabeth Sifton, she did not grow up to be a minister herself, but she did grow up to be a very famous editor, and she was also a writer, and she wrote a whole book on her father's serenity prayer and the evolution of this prayer.

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