The Serenity Prayer: Faith and Politics in Times of Peace and War [Paperback]

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. A timely reminder of the wealth and diversity of the American religious tradition. [An] ebullient and shrewd meditation on faith and social action&A peaceable state of mind simply accompanies the reader as he ends this effortlessly elegant, uniformly sensible paean to the human faith that Sifton inherited. Elisabeth Sifton's Crossing all religious boundaries, the Serenity Prayer may be the best-loved prayer in America. Why? Elisabeth Sifton gives the best answer by remembering a life lived in fidelity to the prayer, the life of her father, the prayer's author, Reinhold Niebuhr. Candidly observed, brimful of energy and wit, this memoir becomes by its end a moving meditation on the dark heart of the twentieth century.