The words to ‘Amazing Grace’ were written by a clergyman with his own catalog of sins to repent. The tune we all know came later.

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

What's True 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.

On January 1, 1773, in Olney, England, The Rev. John Newton, a slave trader-turned-abolitionist, gave a sermon about personal redemption. His words would become one of the best-known hymns in the ...

Obama's eulogy of the Rev. Pinckney was extraordinary not just for his singing of "Amazing Grace," but for his exploration of the idea of grace, and why we need it now.

2023 is the 250th anniversary year of "Amazing Grace." It was first performed on New Year's Day, 1773, and has gone through many changes over the years.