Serenity Now

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The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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As the virus continues to spread, how do we reckon with the reality of ongoing death and disruption? Public theologian Ekemini Uwan explains the idea of “radical acceptance.” Read Ekemini’s piece in The Atlantic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi Catherine.
0:04.6	Hey.
0:05.4	I was just reading about Reinhold neighbor.
0:11.1	Do you know who he is?
0:13.0	No.
0:14.0	He was sort of a writer and public intellectual and theologian.
0:20.0	Anyway, he wrote this thing that is commonly recited in AA.
0:27.0	Uh-huh, what is it?
0:30.8	The serenity prayer?
0:31.8	It's called the serenity prayer. Yeah, you probably know. I know all about the serenity prayer. Oh, how did you come to the serenity prayer? This is the thing that is coming to mind is Seinfeld.
0:45.0	Oh.
0:47.0	They said, there was some episode where they said Serenity now all the time.
0:52.0	Yeah, they did say that. But I don't think that all the time. Yeah they did say that but I forget what that is the
0:54.6	scenario. No no no that's definitely not the serenity prayer but for some
0:58.9	reason that came to mind. The serenity prayer is God grant me the
1:07.2	something to do the things like can change.
1:10.2	It's funny that that's the word you forgot.
1:11.8	The the serenity. forgot. The serenity.
1:14.0	Oh, the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the something.
1:19.0	Courage.
1:20.0	Do the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference?
1:24.4	See? Chiching. Yep. Is there anything interesting to say about Reinhold?
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