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 I write this, many in this community and around the world are celebrating Juneteenth, the day nearly 250,000 enslaved people realized their cries for liberation and freedom had indeed been heard.
The 1972 rendition of 'Amazing Grace' by the Pipes & Drums & Military Band of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards elevates the hymn to a realm of grandeur. The bagpipes' haunting call and the military band ...
Shaquille O’Neal caused a minor frenzy with a video of himself strumming a riff on an acoustic guitar that looked comically small in his hands. The clip was posted to his Instagram page on March 3.
A trans punk rocker has been slammed after singing deeply offensive lyrics during a rally for Democrat Bernie Sanders in Somers, Wisconsin. Laura Jane Grace, the transgender frontwoman and guitarist ...
Parents need to know that Amazing Grace is a historical drama that tells the story of William Wilberforce (Ioan Gruffudd), a British abolitionist and politician in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
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 ...
You know those songs that you just kind of know? You sing along without even thinking about the lyrics. Well, we're going to explore the history of one of these songs today. It's heard around the ...
Venezuelan maestro Gustavo Dudamel directed soprano Pretty Yende and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, as the doors of Notre-Dame reopened to the sound of glorious music. The world was ...
“Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost But now I'm found, was blind but now I see, t'was grace that taught my heart to fear And grace my fears relieved, how ...