Elisabeth Sifton

Elisabeth Sifton is the author of The Serenity Prayer: Faith and Politics in Times of Peace and War, about the background to the famous prayer written by her father, Reinhold Niebuhr.

Books
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No Ordinary Men

In No Ordinary Men, the story of two of the Nazi regime’s most courageous opponents—theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his brother-in-law Hans von Dohnanyi—Sifton and Stern demonstrate that resistance to the Nazi regime was larger and more complicated than usually depicted. In bringing to light this often overlooked chapter of history, the authors expand our understanding of the ways morality can endure in the face of depravity and horror.