With lyrics by poet John Newton and initially published in 1779, "Amazing Grace" is a classic Christian hymn that eventually ...

The hymn's first lines always choke me up. "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found; was blind, but now I see." John Newton's "Amazing Grace" ...

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This is certainly true in the case of John Newton. The story of the man behind Amazing Grace begins with his mother, a woman of great faith. Elizabeth Newton (nee Seatliffe) of Stepney was born in ...