Amazing Grace. By James Walvin. University of California Press; 216 pages; $19.95 and £16.99 A short but fascinating book by James Walvin, a professor at the University of York and an expert on ...

Many people think they know the story of the hymn,"Amazing Grace." The commonly accepted narrative presents its composer, John Newton, a young English captain of a late 18th-century slave ship, as a ...

You know those songs that you just kind of know? You sing along without even thinking about the lyrics. Well, we're going to explore the history of one of these songs today. It's heard around the ...

The words to ‘Amazing Grace’ were written by a clergyman with his own catalog of sins to repent. The tune we all know came later.

“I want to remind you that you are in church and this is a religious service.” So sayeth the Rev. James Cleveland of the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles as he introduces Aretha ...

Amazing Grace was written by an Englishman who in the early part of his life was an outspoken atheist, libertine, and slave trader.

Following Joe Biden’s inaugural speech as president, country star Garth Brooks took to the stage for a rendition of the old hymn “Amazing Grace.” “Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a ...