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Debate surfaces over who wrote "Serenity Prayer"

August 15, 2008

Debate surfaces over who wrote `Serenity Prayer' [Excerpts] As a federal judge tries to sort out who actually wrote the famous "Footprints in the Sand" poem, a similar debate is brewing over whether theologian Reinhold Niebuhr was the author of the "Serenity Prayer." The origins of the Serenity Prayer, which...Read more

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