(Updated and revised by Dennis R. Hillman) The original and unvarnished account of one of Christianity's most dramatic conversions--the autobiography of John Newton, the author of 'Amazing Grace.' This is the ultimate, full-length hym...

Probably best known as the author of the hymn 'Amazing Grace,' John Newton (1725-1807) is now largely forgotten among evangelical Christians. But it is worth recalling something of Newton's remarkable story. His parish ministry, pract...

John Newton (1725-1807), sailor, preacher and hymnwriter, was one of the most colourful figures in the great Evangelical Revival of the 18th Century. Once an infidel andlibertine, a servant of slaves in Africa, he wrote for his own ep...