The Rev. John Newton's hymn "Amazing Grace" has become a national hymn, uniting people of all walks of life and reflecting the Christian view of man as a fallen creature who can do nothing to save ...

Yet by showing how emblematic John Newton’s hymn, “Amazing Grace,” was for Newton’s own experience, how fecund it became for expressing the grateful faith of many generations of both black ...

If John Newton's 'Amazing Grace' speaks of the end of the road before conversion, his 'Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken' speaks of the road afterward.

Amazing Grace: A well-loved hymn about forgiveness and finding new life, written by Cowper’s friend John Newton. Rock of Ages: Speaks of shelter and salvation in God during life’s hardest moments.

Quite remarkable, one observes, is the literary quality of these hymns, for Newton in his early days had been the son of a shipmaster, a sailor of little education. He had served his father on the ...

I had circled round John Newton for many years. Indeed, some of my earlier books concentrated on John Newton as a slave trader. But the more I read about his famous hymn, and the more I listened ...

How do you explain the fact that John Newton, a former slave trader, wrote a hymn that’s treasured by enslaved people and their descendants?

Although John Newton didn't write the last stanza ("When we've been there ten thousand years bright shining as the sun …") it is estimated that verses he did write are sung 10 million times a year.

Back to John Newton. WALVIN: Here is a man of God who writes a very godly hymn, but who actually was engaged in the most barbaric of personal behavior. BALABAN: John Newton was a slave trader.