Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It 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 ...

Does prayer have the power to help recovering alcoholics squash temptation? A small new study out of the NYU Langone Medical Center finds that at least among 20 long-term Alcoholics Anonymous members ...

(RNS) — “Serenity” is not a word many would use to describe the world right now. Perhaps that is why this four-line version of a prayer continues to be uttered as often as it has been since it was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prayer does actually work - at least when it comes to helping alcoholics resist the temptation of drink. Long-term members of ...

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) participants who recited special prayers after viewing drinking-related images reported fewer alcohol cravings and displayed increased emotional and attentive brain activity.

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In 1943, theologian Reinhold Niebuhr wrote the Serenity Prayer, an appeal for grace, courage and wisdom that's become a mantra of Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and appealed to people around the world.

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 ...