The song "Amazing Grace" was first performed on New Year's Day, 1773, and has gone through many changes over the years.

The Rev. John Newton’s hymn “Amazing Grace” has become a national hymn, uniting people of all walks of life and reflecting the Christian view of man as a fallen creature who can d… ...

Amazing Grace. By James Walvin. University of California Press; 216 pages; $19.95 and £16.99 I n 2015 Barack Obama gave the eulogy at a funeral service in Charleston, South Carolina, for a black ...

(RNS) — Says author James Walvin: ‘its words speak to a human condition of suffering, and people coming out of suffering, and its music has a kind of haunting refrain that soothes.’ ...