The Rev. John Newton's hymn "Amazing Grace" has become a national hymn, uniting people of all walks of life and reflecting ...

That’s what John Newton did in 1773, and we’ve been singing his words ever since. In this classic Breakpoint commentary, Chuck Colson told the story of the beloved hymn, “Amazing Grace,” the unlikely ...

John Newton’s hymn “Amazing Grace.” The hymn first appeared in ... It was there that he wrote the self-reflecting hymn. An important feature of “Amazing Grace” is that it is embraced ...

The song "Amazing Grace" was first performed on New Year's Day, 1773, and has gone through many changes over the years.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "AMAZING GRACE") ROBESON: (Singing) I see. BALABAN: But he digresses. Back to John Newton ... WALVIN: What Newton wrote in the 1770s is still what we sing today.

This is certainly true in the case of John Newton. The story of the man behind Amazing Grace begins with his mother ... The step mother had no interest in spiritual things. John wrote: "… (she) lived ...

Clergyman John Newton, a former slave ship captain, wrote the hymn Amazing Grace, first published in 1779. In 1780 he was appointed Rector of the Lord Mayor’s Church in London and many came to ...

Jesus said, “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, ...

Grace Newton is an Associate Producer at WTOP. She also works as an associate producer for the NPR Newscast unit. Grace was born and raised in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, but has lived in D.C ...

In 1973, John Lennon threw fuel on his already ... but I saw plenty of other harrowing incidents,” he wrote. “It’s amazing to me that nobody ended up seriously injured.

21.5 x 18.4 cm. (8.5 x 7.2 in.) ...