Says author James Walvin: ‘its words speak to a human condition of suffering, and people coming out of suffering, and its ...

Newton “became an active hymn-writer at a time when hymns were relatively new in England,” Mr. Walvin informs us, but before ...

If America had a national folk hymn, Amazing Grace would probably be it. This well-loved and often sung hymn, written by John Newton in the late eighteenth century, is a powerful assurance   of the ...