Amazing grace, how sweet the sound That sav'd a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind, but now I see. 'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, And grace my fears reliev'd; How ...

John Newton was a British sailor who once worked on slave ships but later turned his life around. After surviving a violent storm at sea, he felt a deep change in his heart. He left the slave trade, ...

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 Newton’s New ...

“We are on our way. . . . We’re on our journey home!” So declares the silver-clad choir, in buoyant triplets, upon entering the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, in Watts, Los Angeles. Theirs is ...

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 ...

14-year-old Malakai Bayoh, who has had an incredible 2023, returns with an exclusive new video performing one of the world’s best-loved hymns. Malakai Bayoh has returned with a new video: a beautiful ...

For all the historic moments Aretha Franklin helped soundtrack and elevate over the span of decades, it was the pair of concerts delivered New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles in 1972… ...

Born on August 4, 1725, Newton grew up without any specific religious convictions. Forced into the naval service at age 18, he attempted to desert his ship. After being severely beaten on board, at ...

Mary Hall remembers the first time she heard Aretha Franklin sing “Amazing Grace.” It was during a dress rehearsal inside of the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in the Watts neighborhood of Los ...