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The text for ‘Amazing Grace’ was penned in 1772 by the English author, poet and clergyman John Newton, a former slave trader. After surviving an almost fatal shipwreck, Newton converted to ...

“Amazing Grace” was written by John Newton ... while pastor of an Anglican church in Olney, England. The text was later published in 1779 in Olney Hymns in Three Books, a compilation of ...

That's what moves me the most. BALABAN: For a song with a 250-year history, the beauty of "Amazing Grace" is its ability to shapeshift. It's a religious text or not. It's a hymn or a gospel song ...

“Amazing Grace” has stood the test of time because ... It was only in 1835 that William Walker paired the text to tune of “New Britain,” which is now the tune inextricably linked to ...

The lyrics to "Amazing Grace" were penned by former British slave trader turned abolitionist and pastor John Newton in 1772. "Some 60 years later in America, the text was set to the hymn tune ...

"This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge," Biden said. "And unity is the path forward." " 'Amazing Grace' means something helped us: 'It was grace that brought us safe thus far, and Grace ...

Amazing Grace was penned by a former slave trader, but only many decades after he’d left slave trading and seafaring behind and had become a minister of God. What's False It is not true that he ...

Amazing Grace might be the ultimate song of redemption, steeped in two centuries of black history, but its writer had also been a slave ship captain. There is no shortage of versions of Amazing Grace.

Nearly a half-century ago at a Baptist church in Watts, Calif., Aretha Franklin recorded Amazing Grace. The 1972 album went on to become the best-selling live gospel album and while those live ...