Sung an estimated 10 million times each year, "Amazing Grace" marks its 250th anniversary this New Year's Day. It was born not of American Black spirituals as some believe, but across the Atlantic, in ...

AMAZING GRACE co-producer Bob Beltz believes people need to see the movie now more than ever. AMAZING GRACE first came out in ...

“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 ...

“This whole week, I’ve been reflecting on this idea of grace,” said President Obama today, just before he broke into song at the funeral for South Carolina State Sen. Clementa Pinckney, a pastor ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

An interview with Steve Turner, the author “Amazing Grace: The Story of America’s Most Beloved Song.” Rock journalist and poet Steve Turner has made a long career of writing about the history of pop ...

Judy Collins‘ iconic rendition of “Amazing Grace” was released on 1970’s Whales & Nightingales, an album that turns 50 in August. But Collins initially performed the hymn many years before that, ...

When my wife and I started dating, she got free tickets to a gospel show at Radio City Music Hall. I never really listened to gospel but was aware of rock and R&B’s debt to it and figured it would be ...