The Full Serenity Prayer
-created in 1926-
God, grant me serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference: living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time: accepting hardship as a pathway to peace: taking, as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is not as I would have it: trusting that You will make all things right if I surrender to Your will: so that I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with You forever in the next. Amen.
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Reinhold Niebuhr
(1892-1971)
Protestant theologian; born in Wright City, Mo. The son of a clergyman and brother of theologian Helmut Richard Niebuhr, he was educated at Elmhurst College (Ill.), Eden Theological Seminary (Mo.), and the Yale Divinity School. Initially a theological liberal and an active Socialist, his experience as pastor of working-class Bethel Evangelical Church in Detroit (1915--28) gradually turned his thinking in a rightward direction--toward what he called Christian realism. He questioned the adequacy of the Christian gospel of love in a world of conflict, criminality, and totalitarianism; given human nature, the stern doctrines of sin and repentance were essential. By the end of World War II he had entirely shed his earlier socialism, and he roundly condemned totalitarian Communism. Professor of Christian ethics (1928--60) and dean (1950--60) at Union Theological Seminary, he wrote Moral Man and Immoral Society (1932), Faith and History (1949), Structures of Nations and Empires (1959), and many other books. In his later years he was America's best-known serious theologian, who managed to combine his somber, almost existential philosophy with a concern for contemporary political and social issues.
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The Full Serenity Prayer -created in 1926-
God, grant me serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference: living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time: accepting hardship as a pathway to peace: taking, as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is not as I would have it: trusting that You will make all things right if I surrender to Your will: so that I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with You forever in the next. Amen.
Biography
Reinhold Niebuhr
(1892-1971)
Protestant theologian; born in Wright City, Mo. The son of a clergyman and brother of theologian Helmut Richard Niebuhr, he was educated at Elmhurst College (Ill.), Eden Theological Seminary (Mo.), and the Yale Divinity School. Initially a theological liberal and an active Socialist, his experience as pastor of working-class Bethel Evangelical Church in Detroit (1915--28) gradually turned his thinking in a rightward direction--toward what he called Christian realism. He questioned the adequacy of the Christian gospel of love in a world of conflict, criminality, and totalitarianism; given human nature, the stern doctrines of sin and repentance were essential. By the end of World War II he had entirely shed his earlier socialism, and he roundly condemned totalitarian Communism. Professor of Christian ethics (1928--60) and dean (1950--60) at Union Theological Seminary, he wrote Moral Man and Immoral Society (1932), Faith and History (1949), Structures of Nations and Empires (1959), and many other books. In his later years he was America's best-known serious theologian, who managed to combine his somber, almost existential philosophy with a concern for contemporary political and social issues.
(from A&E's BIOGRAPHY web site)
All Photographs + Text © 2005 Christopher Keeley
Narcotics Anonymous Flyers one
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junkie java quiz
super cool links
Chris keeley's resume
secret surrealist society artwork
dead friends
newest sss art
Chris keeley's art galleries
rationalize,minimize and denial statements
the Intervention Organization
five and ten press - consulting iconoclast
Chris Keeley's Social Documentary Photography
activism
Art links
Big brother
Blinded by Science
Darkside / Gothic
Dharma Road
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Maul
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What's Mailart
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