As we look at another New Year’s Day, it’s a good time to reflect on a song that unites rather than divides us: the Rev. John Newton’s hymn “Amazing Grace.” The hymn first appeared in Ne ...

As we look at another New Year’s Day, it’s a good time to reflect on a song that unites rather than divides us: the Rev. John Newton’s hymn “Amazing Grace.” The hymn first appeared in Ne ...

It was there that he wrote the self-reflecting hymn. An important feature of “Amazing Grace” is that it is embraced by all kinds of people from all walks of life — Christians who regularly attend ...

And that's the origins, really, of his ideas that went into "Amazing Grace." BALABAN: Newton gave up slave trading. He became a parish rector and started writing hymns. In December 1772, he wrote ...