query: Who wrote the hymn "Amazing Grace"?

title: The Amazing Grace

text: shocked by the brutality of slavery, later gave up the trade and became an Anglican priest. Newton later wrote the redemptive hymn Amazing Grace and became an abolitionist. According to the film, the tune to which we sing the hymn "Amazing Grace" today was appropriated from the tune of an African song. But in reality, more than twenty musical settings of "Amazing Grace" circulated with varying popularity until 1835 when William Walker assigned John Newton's words to a traditional song named "New Britain", which was itself an amalgamation of two melodies ("Gallaher" and "St. Mary") first published in the "Columbian

title: Amazing Grace

text: when we need to confess with joy that we are saved by God's grace alone; as a hymn of response to forgiveness of sin or as an assurance of pardon; as a confession of faith or after the sermon". Explanatory notes Citations Bibliography Amazing Grace "Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn published in 1779, with words written by the English poet and Anglican clergyman John Newton (1725–1807). Newton wrote the words from personal experience. He grew up without any particular religious conviction, but his life's path was formed by a variety of twists and coincidences that were often put into

title: Amazing Grace (2006 film)

text: Amazing Grace (2006 film) Amazing Grace is a 2006 British-American biographical drama film directed by Michael Apted, about the campaign against the slave trade in the British Empire, led by William Wilberforce, who was responsible for steering anti-slave trade legislation through the British parliament. The title is a reference to the hymn "Amazing Grace". The film also recounts the experiences of John Newton as a crewman on a slave ship and subsequent religious conversion, which inspired his writing of the poem later used in the hymn. Newton is portrayed as a major influence on Wilberforce and the abolition movement. The

title: Amazing Grace

text: Amazing Grace "Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn published in 1779, with words written by the English poet and Anglican clergyman John Newton (1725–1807). Newton wrote the words from personal experience. He grew up without any particular religious conviction, but his life's path was formed by a variety of twists and coincidences that were often put into motion by others' reactions to what they took as his recalcitrant insubordination. He was pressed (conscripted) into service in the Royal Navy, and after leaving the service, he became involved in the Atlantic slave trade. In 1748, a violent storm battered his vessel

title: Amazing Grace (musical)

text: Amazing Grace (musical) Amazing Grace is a musical with music and lyrics by Christopher Smith and a book by Smith and Arthur Giron. The musical is Smith's first foray as a professional writer or composer. It is based loosely on the life of John Newton, an English slave trader who later became an Anglican priest and eventually an abolitionist. He wrote many hymns, including "Amazing Grace". The musical had a 2012 production by Goodspeed Musicals in Connecticut and a pre-Broadway run in Chicago in 2014. It opened on Broadway on July 16, 2015 and closed on October 25, 2015. It

title: What's So Amazing About Grace?

text: named Book of the Year by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association in 1998 when it was chosen by Christian retailers as the title they most enjoyed selling; Yancey's "The Jesus I Never Knew" had received the same award two years earlier. In 1998, "Christianity Today" compared "What's So Amazing About Grace?" to Joel A. Carpenter's "Revive Us Again", writing that both books productively analyze Christian fundamentalism. That year, Karla Vallance's "Christian Science Monitor" review called the book similarly sentimental to John Newton's hymn "Amazing Grace". In a 1998 "Presbyterian Record" review, Canadian Christian writer Phil Callaway writes that "What's So

title: The Amazing Grace

text: Harmony" by Charles H. Spilman and Benjamin Shaw (Cincinnati, 1829). The Amazing Grace The Amazing Grace is a 2006 British Nigerian historical drama film written by Jeta Amata and Nick Moran, directed by Jeta Amata and produced by Jeta Amata & Alicia Arce. The film stars Joke Silva, Nick Moran, Scott Cleverdon, Mbong Odungide, Fred Amata and Zack Amata. The film received 11 nominations and won the award for Achievement in Cinematography at the Africa Movie Academy Awards in 2007. The film, occasionally narrated by Joke Silva, tells the reformation story of British slave trader John Newton (Nick Moran), sailing

title: The Amazing Grace

text: The Amazing Grace The Amazing Grace is a 2006 British Nigerian historical drama film written by Jeta Amata and Nick Moran, directed by Jeta Amata and produced by Jeta Amata & Alicia Arce. The film stars Joke Silva, Nick Moran, Scott Cleverdon, Mbong Odungide, Fred Amata and Zack Amata. The film received 11 nominations and won the award for Achievement in Cinematography at the Africa Movie Academy Awards in 2007. The film, occasionally narrated by Joke Silva, tells the reformation story of British slave trader John Newton (Nick Moran), sailing to what is now Nigeria to buy slaves but, increasingly

title: Broken Vessels (Amazing Grace)

text: and also recorded in other language Broken Vessels (Amazing Grace) Broken Vessels (Amazing Grace) is a contemporary worship music song, released by the Australian band Hillsong Worship. The song is also available in several other languages than English. In all versions such as Spanish, Swedish, Russian, and many more. The song's chorus is taken from John Newton songs Amazing Grace The song was written by Joel Houston and Jonas Myrin and released in Hillsong album No Other Name. The live version is performed by Taya Smith with backing vocal of Joel Houston. The Alternate Version was released with Taya Smith

title: Broken Vessels (Amazing Grace)

text: Broken Vessels (Amazing Grace) Broken Vessels (Amazing Grace) is a contemporary worship music song, released by the Australian band Hillsong Worship. The song is also available in several other languages than English. In all versions such as Spanish, Swedish, Russian, and many more. The song's chorus is taken from John Newton songs Amazing Grace The song was written by Joel Houston and Jonas Myrin and released in Hillsong album No Other Name. The live version is performed by Taya Smith with backing vocal of Joel Houston. The Alternate Version was released with Taya Smith reprises her role as Lead Vocal

title: Amazing Grace

text: popularity of "Amazing Grace" is due to the absence of any mention of God in the lyrics until the fourth verse (by Excell's version, the fourth verse begins "When we've been there ten thousand years"), and that the song represents the ability of humanity to transform itself instead of a transformation taking place at the hands of God. "Grace", however, to John Newton had a clearer meaning, as he used the word to represent God or the power of God. The transformative power of the song was investigated by journalist Bill Moyers in a documentary released in 1990. Moyers was

title: Amazing Grace

text: century, occasionally appearing on popular music charts. According to the "Dictionary of American Hymnology" "Amazing Grace" is John Newton's spiritual autobiography in verse. In 1725, Newton was born in Wapping, a district in London near the Thames. His father was a shipping merchant who was brought up as a Catholic but had Protestant sympathies, and his mother was a devout Independent unaffiliated with the Anglican Church. She had intended Newton to become a clergyman, but she died of tuberculosis when he was six years old. For the next few years, Newton was raised by his emotionally distant stepmother while his

title: Amazing Grace

text: has observed. The hymn has been employed in several films, including "Alice's Restaurant", "Coal Miner's Daughter", and "Silkwood". It is referenced in the 2006 film "Amazing Grace", which highlights Newton's influence on the leading British abolitionist William Wilberforce, and in the upcoming film biography of Newton, "Newton's Grace". The 1982 science fiction film "" used "Amazing Grace" amid a context of Christian symbolism, to memorialize Mr. Spock following his death, but more practically, because the song has become "instantly recognizable to many in the audience as music that sounds appropriate for a funeral" according to a "Star Trek" scholar. Since

title: Amazing Grace (1974 film)

text: community and together they devise a plan to thwart the crooked politician’s schemes. Mabley appeared in the film a year before her death at the age of 81. The film also featured cameo appearances by veteran actors Butterfly McQueen and Stepin Fetchit. The film's title is a play on words based on the name of the Christian hymn "Amazing Grace". It is available on DVD from MGM, and on Blu-Ray from Olive Films. Amazing Grace (1974 film) Amazing Grace is a 1974 comedy film featuring actress/comedian Moms Mabley, playing the title role of Grace Teasdale Grimes. Grace is a widow

title: Amazing Grace

text: Watts whose hymns Newton had grown up hearing and Charles Wesley, with whom Newton was familiar. Wesley's brother John, the eventual founder of the Methodist Church, had encouraged Newton to go into the clergy. Watts was a pioneer in English hymn writing, basing his work after the Psalms. The most prevalent hymns by Watts and others were written in the common meter in 8.6.8.6: the first line is eight syllables and the second is six. Newton and Cowper attempted to present a poem or hymn for each prayer meeting. The lyrics to "Amazing Grace" were written in late 1772 and

title: Amazing Grace

text: 1954, when an organ instrumental of "New Britain" became a bestseller, "Amazing Grace" has been associated with funerals and memorial services. It has become a song that inspires hope in the wake of tragedy, becoming a sort of "spiritual national anthem" according to authors Mary Rourke and Emily Gwathmey. For example, President Barack Obama recited and then sang the hymn at the memorial service for Clementa Pinckney, one of the victims of the 2015 Charleston church shooting. In recent years, the words of the hymn have been changed in some religious publications to downplay a sense of imposed self-loathing by

title: Amazing Grace (Spiritualized album)

text: The Other Stage at Glastonbury 2004 and a support slot for Primal Scream at Brixton Academy, for the Hoping Foundation charity concert, later released on DVD. The closing track on the album, "Lay It Down Slow", was used in the Series Finale of the American TV show Prison Break. All songs written by J Spaceman. Spiritualized: Additional musicians: Amazing Grace (Spiritualized album) Amazing Grace is the fifth album by the British rock band Spiritualized, so named to indicate its considerable gospel influence. Although the title hymn does not appear on the album (Spiritualized have covered it previously, and released a

title: Amazing Grace (Spiritualized album)

text: Amazing Grace (Spiritualized album) Amazing Grace is the fifth album by the British rock band Spiritualized, so named to indicate its considerable gospel influence. Although the title hymn does not appear on the album (Spiritualized have covered it previously, and released a free-jazz version as a b-side in 2001, and also on Complete Works Vol. 2), the ballad "Hold On" is based upon the same melody, and the opening track "This Little Life Of Mine" is clearly indebted to the spiritual "This Little Light Of Mine". After working with free-jazz collective Spring Heel Jack on one of their albums and

title: Amazing Grace

text: participation in the slave trade was his wretchedness, perhaps representing a wider common understanding of Newton's motivations. Newton joined forces with a young man named William Wilberforce, the British Member of Parliament who led the Parliamentarian campaign to abolish the slave trade in the British Empire, culminating in the Slave Trade Act 1807. However, Newton became an ardent and outspoken abolitionist after he left Olney in the 1780s; he never connected the construction of the hymn that became "Amazing Grace" to anti-slavery sentiments. The lyrics in "Olney Hymns" were arranged by their association to the Biblical verses that would be

title: Amazing Grace

text: he wrote it. "Amazing Grace", with the words written by Newton and joined with "New Britain", the melody most currently associated with it, appeared for the first time in Walker's shape note tunebook "Southern Harmony" in 1847. It was, according to author Steve Turner, a "marriage made in heaven ... The music behind 'amazing' had a sense of awe to it. The music behind 'grace' sounded graceful. There was a rise at the point of confession, as though the author was stepping out into the open and making a bold declaration, but a corresponding fall when admitting his blindness." Walker's

title: Amazing Grace (score)

text: at the 39th GMA Dove Awards. Amazing Grace (score) Amazing Grace: Original Score from the Motion Picture is another soundtrack for the movie "Amazing Grace" starring Ioan Gruffudd, this soundtrack features an original score composed by David Arnold. David Arnold, who is best known for composing scores for films, such as "Independence Day", "Stargate", and "Godzilla", completed his journey from the film genres of action-adventure to art house. "Amazing Grace" is based on the 20-year crusade of William Wilberforce to end slavery in the British Empire, as Arnold includes the scores of quasi-folk songs to Negro spirituals; his basic material,

title: Amazing Grace (score)

text: Amazing Grace (score) Amazing Grace: Original Score from the Motion Picture is another soundtrack for the movie "Amazing Grace" starring Ioan Gruffudd, this soundtrack features an original score composed by David Arnold. David Arnold, who is best known for composing scores for films, such as "Independence Day", "Stargate", and "Godzilla", completed his journey from the film genres of action-adventure to art house. "Amazing Grace" is based on the 20-year crusade of William Wilberforce to end slavery in the British Empire, as Arnold includes the scores of quasi-folk songs to Negro spirituals; his basic material, however, remains unchanged from earlier projects.

title: Amazing Grace

text: Newton's hymn were published in the U.S. in Baptist, Dutch Reformed, and Congregationalist hymnodies; by 1830 Presbyterians and Methodists also included Newton's verses in their hymnals. The greatest influences in the 19th century that propelled "Amazing Grace" to spread across the U.S. and become a staple of religious services in many denominations and regions were the Second Great Awakening and the development of shape note singing communities. A tremendous religious movement swept the U.S. in the early 19th century, marked by the growth and popularity of churches and religious revivals that got their start in Kentucky and Tennessee. Unprecedented gatherings

title: Amazing Grace

text: this in practice. Simultaneously, the U.S. began to expand westward into previously unexplored territory that was often wilderness. The "dangers, toils, and snares" of Newton's lyrics had both literal and figurative meanings for Americans. This became poignantly true during the most serious test of American cohesion in the U.S. Civil War (1861–1865). "Amazing Grace" set to "New Britain" was included in two hymnals distributed to soldiers and with death so real and imminent, religious services in the military became commonplace. The hymn was translated into other languages as well: while on the Trail of Tears, the Cherokee sang Christian hymns

title: Amazing Grace

text: Nelson (1976), and the Lemonheads (1992). Following the appropriation of the hymn in secular music, "Amazing Grace" became such an icon in American culture that it has been used for a variety of secular purposes and marketing campaigns, placing it in danger of becoming a cliché. It has been mass-produced on souvenirs, lent its name to a Superman villain, appeared on "The Simpsons" to demonstrate the redemption of a murderous character named Sideshow Bob, incorporated into Hare Krishna chants and adapted for Wicca ceremonies. It can also be sung to the theme from "The Mickey Mouse Club", as Garrison Keillor

title: Amazing Grace

text: to fellow folk singer Joan Baez, it was one of the most requested songs from her audiences, but she never realized its origin as a hymn; by the time she was singing it in the 1960s she said it had "developed a life of its own". It even made an appearance at the Woodstock Music Festival in 1969 during Arlo Guthrie's performance. Collins decided to record it in the late 1960s amid an atmosphere of counterculture introspection; she was part of an encounter group that ended a contentious meeting by singing "Amazing Grace" as it was the only song to

title: Amazing Grace

text: used the song to remember their grandparents, traditions, and family roots. It was recorded with musical accompaniment for the first time in 1930 by Fiddlin' John Carson, although to another folk hymn named "At the Cross", not to "New Britain". "Amazing Grace" is emblematic of several kinds of folk music styles, often used as the standard example to illustrate such musical techniques as lining out and call and response, that have been practiced in both black and white folk music. Mahalia Jackson's 1947 version received significant radio airplay, and as her popularity grew throughout the 1950s and 1960s, she often

title: What's So Amazing About Grace?

text: "spiritual self-help genre" in 2007. According to Mousley, Yancey's quotation from "The Merchant of Venice" demonstrates the author's moral universalism; Yancey views Shakespeare as a sage who conveyed universally applicable morals, a perspective contradicting most contemporary literary critics who distrust moral universalism, using historicism to contextualize Shakespeare's religious views. Dean Poling of "The Valdosta Daily Times" wrote in 2008 that, in "What's So Amazing About Grace?", "Yancey writes about faith in a clear, honest, and inquisitive style" consistent with his other books. In 2010, a "Herald Express" journalist called the book "hardhitting" and "gritty". "What's So Amazing About Grace?" was

title: Amazing Grace

text: previously included by Harriet Beecher Stowe in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" were published by Excell between 1900 and 1910, and his version of "Amazing Grace" became the standard form of the song in American churches. With the advent of recorded music and radio, "Amazing Grace" began to cross over from primarily a gospel standard to secular audiences. The ability to record combined with the marketing of records to specific audiences allowed "Amazing Grace" to take on thousands of different forms in the 20th century. Where Edwin Othello Excell sought to make the singing of "Amazing Grace" uniform throughout thousands of churches,

title: What's So Amazing About Grace?

text: Amazing About Grace?" made him "thankful afresh for God's grace and challenged to live a life reflecting it". Callaway was haunted by Yancey's question, "If grace is so amazing, why don't Christians show more of it?" and expressed his appreciation to the author at the 1998 Christian Booksellers Association convention. When he asked Yancey why he wrote the book, the author answered: "I long for the church to become a culture of grace ... A graceful church knows how to welcome failure and rewards vulnerability so that a person automatically thinks of the church when needing help." Yancey asked Callaway

title: Amazing Grace (soundtrack)

text: Amazing Grace (soundtrack) Amazing Grace: Music Inspired By the Motion Picture is a soundtrack for the movie "Amazing Grace" starring Ioan Gruffudd. The album features new versions of old hymns recorded by some of Christian music's more prominent artists as well as one of the most popular country artists around today. Some digital releases of the album omit the Jars of Clay and Bart Millard tracks. In 2008, the album was nominated for a Dove Award for Special Event Album of the Year at the 39th GMA Dove Awards. The song "Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone)" by Chris Tomlin

title: Amazing Grace (ship)

text: Wish Foundation on sailing excursions. Amazing Grace participated in many races including the America's Schooner Cup and the Tall Ships Challenge. Although the vessel is a "tall ship", she is unusually fast. Other tall ship sailors envy her for her speed and maneuverability. Amazing Grace races against much more modern schooners and still manages to be a competitor. In the America's Schooner Cup, in the class B category, she placed 3rd in 2010, 2nd in 2012, and 1st in 2014. Amazing Grace (ship) Amazing Grace is an 83' topsail schooner. Her home port is in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The

title: Amazing Grace

text: by the use of this perspective. Several of Newton's hymns were recognized as great work ("Amazing Grace" was not among them) while others seem to have been included to fill in when Cowper was unable to write. Jonathan Aitken calls Newton, specifically referring to "Amazing Grace", an "unashamedly middlebrow lyricist writing for a lowbrow congregation", noting that only twenty-one of the nearly 150 words used in all six verses have more than one syllable. William Phipps in the "Anglican Theological Review" and author James Basker have interpreted the first stanza of "Amazing Grace" as evidence of Newton's realization that his

title: What's So Amazing About Grace?

text: What's So Amazing About Grace? What's So Amazing About Grace? is a 1997 book by Philip Yancey, an American journalist and editor-at-large for "Christianity Today". The book examines grace in Christianity, contending that people crave grace and that it is central to the gospel, but that many local churches ignore grace and instead seek to exterminate immorality. "What's So Amazing About Grace?" includes Bible stories, anecdotes from Yancey's life, accounts of historical events and other stories. These include a modern retelling of the Parable of the Prodigal Son, an account of Yancey's friendship with Mel White who came out as

title: What's So Amazing About Grace?

text: homosexual, a comparison of the teachings of early Christians Pelagius and Augustine of Hippo, and a summary of Karen Blixen's short story "Babette's Feast". Yancey was inspired to write "What's So Amazing About Grace?" after President Bill Clinton asked him, "Why do Christians hate so much?" Although Yancey initially intended to call the book "What's So Amazing About Grace: and Why Don't Christians Show More of It?", Zondervan, its publisher, objected to this title despite the author's contention that he wrote the book to communicate the belief that grace is one of the best quality Christians, like himself, have to

title: Amazing Grace

text: poetry somewhat more than Newton's plaintive and plain language driven from his forceful personality. The most prevalent themes in the verses written by Newton in "Olney Hymns" are faith in salvation, wonder at God's grace, his love for Jesus, and his cheerful exclamations of the joy he found in his faith. As a reflection of Newton's connection to his parishioners, he wrote many of the hymns in first person, admitting his own experience with sin. Bruce Hindmarsh in "Sing Them Over Again To Me: Hymns and Hymnbooks in America" considers "Amazing Grace" an excellent example of Newton's testimonial style afforded

title: Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley

text: Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley is an hour-long documentary film that celebrates the legacy of the late musician Jeff Buckley with specific attention given to fans he inspired. The film was officially sanctioned by Jeff's mother and estate. It is not a biography, but a tribute. "Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley" screened at 25 film festivals around the world between 2004 and 2006 where it won several awards including, best film, best documentary and best music documentary. It was directed and produced by first-time filmmakers, Nyla Bialek Adams and Laurie Trombley, who was also hand-picked by Jeff Buckley

title: Metre (hymn)

text: Metre (hymn) A hymn metre (Am. meter) indicates the number of syllables for the lines in each stanza of a hymn. This provides a means of marrying the hymn's text with an appropriate hymn tune for singing. In the English language poetic metres and hymn metres have different starting points but there is nevertheless much overlap. Take the opening lines of the hymn "Amazing Grace": Analyzing this, a poet would see a couplet with four iambic metrical feet in the first line and three in the second. A musician would more likely count eight syllables in the first line and

title: Metre (hymn)

text: long as the poetic foot (such as iambic, trochaic) also conforms. Most hymnals include a metrical index of the book's tunes. Metre (hymn) A hymn metre (Am. meter) indicates the number of syllables for the lines in each stanza of a hymn. This provides a means of marrying the hymn's text with an appropriate hymn tune for singing. In the English language poetic metres and hymn metres have different starting points but there is nevertheless much overlap. Take the opening lines of the hymn "Amazing Grace": Analyzing this, a poet would see a couplet with four iambic metrical feet in

title: Amazing Grace (1974 film)

text: Amazing Grace (1974 film) Amazing Grace is a 1974 comedy film featuring actress/comedian Moms Mabley, playing the title role of Grace Teasdale Grimes. Grace is a widow who influences the local mayoral election in Baltimore, Maryland after she discovers her somewhat slow-witted neighbor is being used to run for mayor by shady politicians and the incumbent mayor to further his own self-serving reelection efforts. Grace knows the politicians have no interest in the betterment of the neighborhood and are only interested in getting their hands on the money that comes into it. She organizes some of the people in the

title: Amazing Grace (soundtrack)

text: was also nominated for Song of the Year. Amazing Grace (soundtrack) Amazing Grace: Music Inspired By the Motion Picture is a soundtrack for the movie "Amazing Grace" starring Ioan Gruffudd. The album features new versions of old hymns recorded by some of Christian music's more prominent artists as well as one of the most popular country artists around today. Some digital releases of the album omit the Jars of Clay and Bart Millard tracks. In 2008, the album was nominated for a Dove Award for Special Event Album of the Year at the 39th GMA Dove Awards. The song "Amazing

title: Hymn

text: the hymns. As examples of the distinction, "Amazing Grace" is a hymn (no refrain), but "How Great Thou Art" is a gospel song. During the 19th century, the gospel-song genre spread rapidly in Protestantism and to a lesser but still definite extent, in Roman Catholicism; the gospel-song genre is unknown in the worship "per se" by Eastern Orthodox churches, which rely exclusively on traditional chants (a type of hymn). The Methodist Revival of the 18th century created an explosion of hymn-writing in Welsh, which continued into the first half of the 19th century. The most prominent names among Welsh hymn-writers

title: Amazing Grace (The Badlees album)

text: and straddles the divide between punk/new wave and the guitar-driven pop of the 1960s, in much the same vein as Tom Petty did in the past and The Cellarbirds would in the near future. "Amazing Grace" was released on Rite-Off Records on April 2, 1999. The strategy to cause movement at Universal apparently worked, as the Badlees were dropped from the label on the very day that this album was released. Amazing Grace (The Badlees album) Amazing Grace is the fourth full length studio album released by American band The Badlees. It was released on their independent label, Rite-Off Records,

title: Amazing Grace

text: this disparity in terms of grace being an innate quality within all people who must be inspired or strong enough to find it: something to achieve. In contrast to Newton's vision of wretchedness as his willful sin and distance from God, wretchedness has instead come to mean an obstacle of physical, social, or spiritual nature to overcome in order to achieve a state of grace, happiness, or contentment. Since its immense popularity and iconic nature, "grace" and the meaning behind the words of "Amazing Grace" have become as individual as the singer or listener. Bruce Hindmarsh suggests that the secular

title: Amazing Grace (ship)

text: Amazing Grace (ship) Amazing Grace is an 83' topsail schooner. Her home port is in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The ship serves as the platform for the non-profit Maritime Leadership and is also available for private charters and memorials at sea. Maritime Leadership provides traditional sail training adventures through sailings ranging from 3–48 hours. Like other schooners, Amazing Grace is the traditional American sailing craft. These were the small vessels that fought the British in the War of Independence and again in the War of 1812, both as ships of the U.S. Navy and as privateers. Her original name was

title: Amazing Grace (musical)

text: as Pakuteh/Thomas, and Stanley Bahorek as Robert Haweis. "Amazing Grace" opened on Broadway on July 16, 2015 at the Nederlander Theatre after 20 preview performances. The production featured the same principal cast and creative team as the Chicago production. It received mixed reviews. The show closed on October 25, 2015 after 116 performances. A cast recording was released in February 2016. "From the 2015 Broadway production" Amazing Grace (musical) Amazing Grace is a musical with music and lyrics by Christopher Smith and a book by Smith and Arthur Giron. The musical is Smith's first foray as a professional writer or

title: Amazing Grace (novel)

text: from her new friend. At a refugee camp, all four come together and become a support system for the others as life starts to resemble normality and the world blesses them with amazing grace. Amazing Grace (novel) Amazing Grace is a novel by Danielle Steel, published by Random House in October 2007. The book is Steel's seventy-third novel. At a charity dinner in San Francisco, the Ritz-Carlton ballroom is ravaged by an earthquake. In the aftermath, four stranger's lives are entwined forever. Sarah Sloane's perfect life falls apart when her husband is exposed as a fraudster. Grammy winner Melanie Free

title: Amazing Grace Church

text: licensed in July 2006. In 2008, the term "Bible" was added to the church name to distinguish it from other denominational churches. The congregation has evolved into a mix of residents from the Kanagawa Prefecture area and numerous international families. The Amazing Grace Bible Church has an extensive collection of bible study materials in print, digital, and online formats. These scripture-based teachings include podcasts, newsletters, and a spiritual book series, Faith From Fujisawa. Amazing Grace Church Amazing Grace Bible Church (アメージンググレースバイブルチャーチ) is a bilingual (English and Japanese) Christian church located in Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan. There are two services per week,

title: What's So Amazing About Grace?

text: Baptist Church in Dallas, compared "What's So Amazing About Grace?" to Chuck Swindoll's book "The Grace Awakening", calling both "wonderful books on grace [that] did a valuable service rescuing the doctrine of grace from the legalists who say that we must earn our salvation". Christian professor Craig Detweiler writes in his 2008 book "A Purple State of Mind: Finding Middle Ground in a Divided Culture" that, if he could have given his students a graduation present, it would have been a copy of "What's So Amazing About Grace?" because many of his Christian students were more concerned with avoiding the

title: Amazing Grace: Songs for Christmas

text: on the ARIA Urban Albums Chart. The following week, "Amazing Grace: Songs for Christmas" peaked at number 70 on the ARIA Albums Chart, and at number seven on the ARIA Urban Albums Chart. Amazing Grace: Songs for Christmas Amazing Grace: Songs for Christmas is the first extended play (EP) by Australian recording artist Paulini, released on 26 November 2004 by Sony BMG Australia. The EP was produced by Audius Mtawarira and features cover versions of popular Christmas songs, as well as guest vocal appearances by Darlene Zschech and Human Nature. "Amazing Grace: Songs for Christmas" peaked at number 70 on

title: Amazing Grace

text: as a way of coping with the ongoing tragedy, and a version of the song by Samuel Worcester that had been translated into the Cherokee language became very popular. Although "Amazing Grace" set to "New Britain" was popular, other versions existed regionally. Primitive Baptists in the Appalachian region often used "New Britain" with other hymns, and sometimes sing the words of "Amazing Grace" to other folk songs, including titles such as "In the Pines", "Pisgah", "Primrose", and "Evan", as all are able to be sung in common meter, of which the majority of their repertoire consists. A tune named "Arlington"

title: Amazing Grace

text: by the congregation. It debuted in print in 1779 in Newton and Cowper's "Olney Hymns" but settled into relative obscurity in England. In the United States, however, "Amazing Grace" was used extensively during the Second Great Awakening in the early 19th century. It has been associated with more than 20 melodies, but in 1835 it was joined to a tune named "New Britain" to which it is most frequently sung today. With the message that forgiveness and redemption are possible regardless of sins committed and that the soul can be delivered from despair through the mercy of God, "Amazing Grace"

title: Amazing Grace

text: despair for Cowper's benefit. Although it had its roots in England, "Amazing Grace" became an integral part of the Christian tapestry in the United States. More than 60 of Newton and Cowper's hymns were republished in other British hymnals and magazines, but "Amazing Grace" was not, appearing only once in a 1780 hymnal sponsored by the Countess of Huntingdon. Scholar John Julian commented in his 1892 "A Dictionary of Hymnology" that outside of the United States, the song was unknown and it was "far from being a good example of Newton's finest work". Between 1789 and 1799, four variations of

title: Amazing Grace

text: free. It just frees the spirit and frees the person." The U.S. Library of Congress has a collection of 3,000 versions of and songs inspired by "Amazing Grace", some of which were first-time recordings by folklorists Alan and John Lomax, a father and son team who in 1932 traveled thousands of miles across the South to capture the different regional styles of the song. More contemporary renditions include samples from such popular artists as Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers (1963), the Byrds (1970), Elvis Presley (1971), Skeeter Davis (1972), Mighty Clouds of Joy (1972), Amazing Rhythm Aces (1975), Willie

title: Amazing Grace

text: what else to do about the war in Vietnam. I had marched, I had voted, I had gone to jail on political actions and worked for the candidates I believed in. The war was still raging. There was nothing left to do, I thought ... but sing 'Amazing Grace'." Gradually and unexpectedly, the song began to be played on the radio, and then be requested. It rose to number 15 on the "Billboard" Hot 100, remaining on the charts for 15 weeks, as if, she wrote, her fans had been "waiting to embrace it". In the UK, it charted 8

title: Amazing Grace

text: Jesus healing a blind man who tells the Pharisees that he can now see is told in the Gospel of John. Newton used the words "I was blind but now I see" and declared "Oh to grace how great a debtor!" in his letters and diary entries as early as 1752. The effect of the lyrical arrangement, according to Bruce Hindmarsh, allows an instant release of energy in the exclamation "Amazing grace!", to be followed by a qualifying reply in "how sweet the sound". In "An Annotated Anthology of Hymns", Newton's use of an exclamation at the beginning of his

title: Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley

text: four of Jeff Buckley's band members, his mother, friends, colleagues, critics, DJ's, as well as artists or "fans" inspired by Jeff (including a young classical composer, a painter, a dancer and two singers.) The latter are meant as a testament to the uniquely broad range of Buckley fans who were inspired by Jeff's music. Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley is an hour-long documentary film that celebrates the legacy of the late musician Jeff Buckley with specific attention given to fans he inspired. The film was officially sanctioned by Jeff's mother and estate. It is not a biography,

title: Amazing Grace (The Badlees album)

text: Amazing Grace (The Badlees album) Amazing Grace is the fourth full length studio album released by American band The Badlees. It was released on their independent label, Rite-Off Records, in April 1999, just as the band was working to get out of their contract with Universal. The Badlees recorded their follow-up to the blockbuster River Songs in 1997. The album was called Up There, Down Here and was ready to be published, but the sale of Polygram to Seagram's put all projects on hold indefinitely. Over the final months of 1998 and into 1999, the Badlees played steadily to packed

title: What's So Amazing About Grace?

text: that it was the basis of two chapters of Yancey's upcoming book with the working title of "What's So Amazing About Grace and Why the World Needs More of It". The book was published later that year with the shorter title "What's So Amazing About Grace?" According to the author, he began writing the book in the same way he began most of his books: by exploring a question that was unresolved for him. In this case, the question became the book's title. In "What's So Amazing About Grace?", Yancey answers this question by writing that God gives grace to

title: Amazing Grace (The Badlees album)

text: band possesses, that had been suppressed in recent years. If you include the already-finished-but-yet-to-be released Up There, Down Here, Pete Palladino sang lead vocals on 56 of the 58 songs that the Badlees had published since 1990, but of the eleven tracks that made up "Amazing Grace", Pete would only be the lead singer on four. But on the flipside, Palladino had no individual songwriting credits on any of those previous recordings, but he did have one on this album, a pop gem which he co-wrote with Mike Naydock titled "A Fever", which contains some pristine, soprano vocals in the

title: Amazing Grace: Songs for Christmas

text: Amazing Grace: Songs for Christmas Amazing Grace: Songs for Christmas is the first extended play (EP) by Australian recording artist Paulini, released on 26 November 2004 by Sony BMG Australia. The EP was produced by Audius Mtawarira and features cover versions of popular Christmas songs, as well as guest vocal appearances by Darlene Zschech and Human Nature. "Amazing Grace: Songs for Christmas" peaked at number 70 on the ARIA Albums Chart, and at number seven on the ARIA Urban Albums Chart. On 6 December 2004, the EP debuted at number 82 on the ARIA Albums Chart, and at number eight

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text: S. Lewis and saying, "The first time I read ["What's So Amazing About Grace?"] I ended up in tears with every new chapter". In 2012, Pope affirmed that it was still his favorite book. Tim Costello, CEO of World Vision Australia, said in 2008 that the book was important to him. In 2010, American politician Bill Haslam cited "What's So Amazing About Grace?" and John Heilemann's and Mark Halperin's "Game Change" as two recent books he enjoyed. Retired Northern Ireland Civil Service head Nigel Hamilton said in 2014 that "What's So Amazing About Grace?" was his favorite book. What's So

title: Amazing Grace (musical)

text: went on to write hundreds of hymns ("Amazing Grace"). "Amazing Grace" was first presented after a number of readings in a developmental production at Goodspeed Musicals in Chester, Connecticut in the summer of 2012. The production was directed by Gabriel Barre and starred Chris Peluso and Whitney Bashor. The musical had a pre-Broadway run in the fall of 2014 at the Bank of America Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. The show was again directed by Barre and featured choreography by Christopher Gattelli. This production starred Josh Young as John, alongside Erin Mackey as Mary, Tom Hewitt as Captain Newton, Chuck Cooper

title: Amazing Grace (novel)

text: Amazing Grace (novel) Amazing Grace is a novel by Danielle Steel, published by Random House in October 2007. The book is Steel's seventy-third novel. At a charity dinner in San Francisco, the Ritz-Carlton ballroom is ravaged by an earthquake. In the aftermath, four stranger's lives are entwined forever. Sarah Sloane's perfect life falls apart when her husband is exposed as a fraudster. Grammy winner Melanie Free realises what is important in life. Photographer Everett Carson finds a new purpose to live and nun Sister Maggie Kent, frantically works to rebuild the city and try to hide her feelings of love

title: Amazing Grace Church

text: Amazing Grace Church Amazing Grace Bible Church (アメージンググレースバイブルチャーチ) is a bilingual (English and Japanese) Christian church located in Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan. There are two services per week, with nine bible study classes. The church sponsors monthly non-denominational seminars in Kanagawa Prefecture, with spiritual retreats held all over Japan. In addition, both sermons and classes are held weekly via video conferencing with members living in China and America. In March 2001, the Rising Sun School opened in Fujisawa, Japan with a Christian focus on teaching English. After several years of offering bible classes and building a congregation, an official church was

title: Amazing Grace

text: its singers. The second line, "That saved a wretch like me!" has been rewritten as "That saved and strengthened me", "save a soul like me", or "that saved and set me free". Kathleen Norris in her book "Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith" characterizes this transformation of the original words as "wretched English" making the line that replaces the original "laughably bland". Part of the reason for this change has been the altered interpretations of what wretchedness and grace means. Newton's Calvinistic view of redemption and divine grace formed his perspective that he considered himself a sinner so vile that

title: What's So Amazing About Grace?

text: asking non-Christians what they associated with Evangelical Christianity. None of their responses mentioned grace; most cited political stances, such as opposition to LGBT rights and abortion. The author initially intended to call his book "What's So Amazing About Grace: and Why Don't Christians Show More of It?" Zondervan, its eventual publisher, objected to the title's forcefulness, despite Yancey's argument that he wrote the book about how "we Christians are simply not known by the greatest gift we have". On February 3, 1997, "Christianity Today" published an essay by Yancey, the magazine's editor-at-large, with the title "A State of Ungrace", saying

title: Amazing Grace

text: it "to give magical protection a charm to ward off danger, an incantation to the angels of heaven to descend ... I was not sure the magic worked outside the church walls ... in the open air of Mississippi. But I wasn't taking any chances." Folk singer Judy Collins, who knew the song before she could remember learning it, witnessed Fannie Lou Hamer leading marchers in Mississippi in 1964, singing "Amazing Grace". Collins also considered it a talisman of sorts, and saw its equal emotional impact on the marchers, witnesses, and law enforcement who opposed the civil rights demonstrators. According

title: What's So Amazing About Grace?

text: "someone at last feels that I — I! — am the most desirable, attractive, companionable creature on the planet". Christians of many denominations treat "What's So Amazing About Grace?" as a handbook. In it, Yancey coined the phrase "scandal of grace", referring to the idea that God may choose to forgive people who have done evil deeds, citing the conversion of Paul the Apostle who was persecuting Christians. The phrase "scandal of grace" has become widely used in Christian circles. In 2005, the Barna Group, a California-based research firm, asked senior pastors across the United States which books they had

title: Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace

text: Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace is the third studio album by American country music duo Big & Rich. It was released on June 5, 2007. The album's lead-off single "Lost In This Moment," became the duo's first Number One single on the Hot Country Songs chart. Also released from this album were the title track and "Loud", which respectively peaked at No. 37 and No. 42 on the same chart. The latter was the first single of the duo's career not to reach Top 40. "Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace" debuted at

title: Amazing Grace

text: it. According to Newton, unconverted sinners were "blinded by the god of this world" until "mercy came to us not only undeserved but undesired ... our hearts endeavored to shut him out till he overcame us by the power of his grace." The New Testament served as the basis for many of the lyrics of "Amazing Grace". The first verse, for example, can be traced to the story of the Prodigal Son. In the Gospel of Luke the father says, "For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost, and is found". The story of

title: Amazing Grace

text: verse is called "crude but effective" in an overall composition that "suggest(s) a forceful, if simple, statement of faith". Grace is recalled three times in the following verse, culminating in Newton's most personal story of his conversion, underscoring the use of his personal testimony with his parishioners. The sermon preached by Newton was his last, of those that William Cowper heard in Olney, since Cowper's mental instability returned shortly thereafter. Steve Turner, author of "Amazing Grace: The Story of America's Most Beloved Song", suggests Newton may have had his friend in mind, employing the themes of assurance and deliverance from

title: Amazing Grace

text: inspired to focus on the song's power after watching a performance at Lincoln Center, where the audience consisted of Christians and non-Christians, and he noticed that it had an equal impact on everybody in attendance, unifying them. James Basker also acknowledged this force when he explained why he chose "Amazing Grace" to represent a collection of anti-slavery poetry: "there is a transformative power that is applicable ... : the transformation of sin and sorrow into grace, of suffering into beauty, of alienation into empathy and connection, of the unspeakable into imaginative literature." Moyers interviewed Collins, Cash, opera singer Jessye Norman,

title: Amazing Grace (1992 film)

text: Amazing Grace (1992 film) Amazing Grace is a 1992 Israeli film directed by Amos Guttman. It is one of the few Israeli films dealing with gay subjects and the only one so far which has dared to deal with AIDS. The film includes a biography details the life of Guttman and it was his last film before he died of AIDS. The film won the Wolgin Award at the Jerusalem Film Festival and Best Film award at the Haifa International Film Festival. The young 'Jonathan' (Gal Heuberger) leaves his family's home in the Moshav, moves to "the big city" of

title: Amazing Grace and Chuck

text: and the other athletes renovate into their residence. Smith's agent, Lynn (Jamie Lee Curtis) is unsure about what he hopes to accomplish but decides to support him and Chuck. The film reaches a climax when the President of the United States (Gregory Peck) personally meets with Chuck, admiring his resolve but at the same time explaining the practical difficulties of disarmament. Amazing Grace and Chuck Amazing Grace and Chuck is a 1987 American sports drama film starring William Petersen, Jamie Lee Curtis and Gregory Peck. The film was directed by Mike Newell. It was released on VHS in the UK

title: Amazing Grace (1992 film)

text: Tel Aviv, to find an alienated and alone world. He falls in love with Thomas (Sharon Alexander), an HIV patient, and a touching and painful love story develops between the two. Amazing Grace (1992 film) Amazing Grace is a 1992 Israeli film directed by Amos Guttman. It is one of the few Israeli films dealing with gay subjects and the only one so far which has dared to deal with AIDS. The film includes a biography details the life of Guttman and it was his last film before he died of AIDS. The film won the Wolgin Award at the

title: Amazing Grace (2006 film)

text: bill that outlawed the slave trade in the British empire." Wally Hammond writing for "Time Out" singled out Benedict Cumberbatch's performance for praise saying his performance "quietly upstaged" the fine performance of Gruffudd. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 70% based on review from 122 critics, 85 of which were positive. According to the website, the film is "your quintessential historical biopic: stately, noble, and with plenty of electrifying performances." Metacritic gives the film a 65 out of 100, based on reviews from 29 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Amazing Grace (2006 film) Amazing Grace

title: Amazing Grace and Chuck

text: Amazing Grace and Chuck Amazing Grace and Chuck is a 1987 American sports drama film starring William Petersen, Jamie Lee Curtis and Gregory Peck. The film was directed by Mike Newell. It was released on VHS in the UK as Silent Voice. Chuck Murdock (Joshua Zuehlke), a 12-year-old boy from Montana and the son of a military jet pilot, becomes anxious after seeing a Minuteman missile on a school field trip, which is intensified by a nightmare of a fork dropping after being told that the speed and effectivess would be done "before a dropped fork hits the floor". Chuck

title: What's So Amazing About Grace?

text: not felt, and ultimately it was not received". In the "Coventry Telegraph" in 2001, Barbara Goulden called the book's title provocative. A 2003 "Daily Express" review called "What's So Amazing About Grace?" "a cogent, intellectually robust defence of [Christianity] without all the crap that goes with so many churches today". Derick Bingham of the "Belfast Telegraph" recommended the book that year, calling it a liberating read. In 2006, Terry Pluto of the "Akron Beacon Journal" called "What's So Amazing About Grace?" and the earlier "Disappointment with God" Yancey's best books. Shakespearean scholar Andy Mousley called the book part of the

title: What's So Amazing About Grace?

text: the country. That March, it was the seventh-bestselling religious book in the UK, behind Rick Warren's "The Purpose Driven Life", John Ortberg's "If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat" and Eugene H. Peterson's "The Message". "What's So Amazing About Grace?" is Yancey's best-known book, having sold more than 15 million copies by 2006. Initially, the book was especially popular among baby boomers. Its popularity helped increase sales of Yancey's 2000 book "Reaching for the Invisible God", which appeared on religion bestseller lists immediately after publication. "What's So Amazing About Grace?" is one

title: Amazing Grace (Aretha Franklin album)

text: Amazing Grace (Aretha Franklin album) Amazing Grace is the fourth live album by American singer Aretha Franklin. Released on June 1, 1972 by Atlantic Records, it ultimately sold over two million copies in the United States alone, earning a double platinum certification. As of 2017, it stands as the biggest selling disc of Franklin's entire fifty-plus year recording career as well as the highest selling live gospel music album of all time. It won Franklin the 1973 Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance. The double album was recorded at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles during

title: What's So Amazing About Grace?

text: Ray Olson called "What's So Amazing About Grace?" a "well-written and engaging book [that] will continue to nourish readers' hunger for spiritual sustenance long after it has answered the appetites of an initial burst of consumers". He compared the book to Max Lucado's "The Great House of God", also published in 1997, writing that, although Yancey and Lucado have both written several bestselling Christian books, Yancey's book was edited better. Olson praised as pithy the author's summaries of "Babette's Feast" and "Love in the Time of Cholera". In the "Calgary Herald", David Briggs compares "What's So Amazing About Grace?" to

title: Amazing Grace (Judy Collins album)

text: the artist had released where she has recorded covers of songs that could be considered the "signature songs" of several other artists, including Simon and Garfunkel, Joni Mitchell, Bette Midler and Cat Stevens. Amazing Grace (Judy Collins album) Amazing Grace is an album by Judy Collins, released in 1985 by the UK record label Telstar. It was her first album after ending her 24-year association with Elektra and was recorded and released in 1985 in the UK as a Christmas offering. It has only been available in the United States as an import, although seven of the tracks can be

title: Amazing Grace (Judy Collins album)

text: Amazing Grace (Judy Collins album) Amazing Grace is an album by Judy Collins, released in 1985 by the UK record label Telstar. It was her first album after ending her 24-year association with Elektra and was recorded and released in 1985 in the UK as a Christmas offering. It has only been available in the United States as an import, although seven of the tracks can be found on her 1987 US release from Gold Castle, "Trust Your Heart". At 16 tracks and nearly an hour in duration, this was Collins' longest album to date. It is the first album

title: Amazing Grace (Aretha Franklin album)

text: January 1972. A film documenting the making of the album was set to be released in 1972, but was shelved by Warner Bros. "Amazing Grace" was remastered and re-released in 1999 as a two-compact disc set with many unreleased takes. Disc one Disc two Information is based on this edition’s Liner Notes "Amazing Grace", a documentary/concert film directed by Sydney Pollack for Warner Bros., was set to be released as part of a double bill with "Super Fly" in 1972. However, Pollack was unable to complete the film because he had not used a clapperboard to synchronize the picture and

title: What's So Amazing About Grace?

text: people unconditionally, without their need to earn it. His book includes Bible stories, anecdotes from Yancey's life and accounts of historical events. Similar to his other works, "What's So Amazing About Grace?" has a self-deprecating tone. It describes Yancey's upbringing in a judgmental church, a theme Yancey previously explored in "The Jesus I Never Knew" and later returned to in "Reaching for the Invisible God" and "Soul Survivor". "What's So Amazing About Grace?" sold well at secular and Christian stores. Its popularity in the United Kingdom grew in 2003, when the impending Iraq War boosted sales of religious literature in

title: What's So Amazing About Grace?

text: in and prayed to God. Bono spoke with Gallagher on the subject for two hours and sent him a copy of "What's So Amazing About Grace?" Gallagher later said that he was "going to have a good read of this book", that Bono "made a lot of sense", and that the gift was particularly meaningful because Bono's father had recently died. During Christmas 2001, while Debra Searle was competing in the Atlantic Rowing Race by making a solo transatlantic crossing from Tenerife to Barbados, her twin sister Hayley sent her a copy of "What's So Amazing About Grace?" as part

title: What's So Amazing About Grace?

text: calls "What's So Amazing About Grace?" life-changing and writes that Yancey's discussion of "Babette's Feast" inspired him to see the film. "U.S. Catholic" reviewer Mary Lynn Hendrickson also praised Yancey's retelling of Karen Blixen's story. In 2000, Bear Grylls, the youngest Briton to survive an ascent of Mount Everest, cited "What's So Amazing About Grace?" as his "favourite holiday read" and "a book that has inspired me a lot". In 2001, American politician Mark Earley called it his favorite book. That year, English musician Noel Gallagher asked Irish musician Bono to explain religion to him because Gallagher knew Bono believed

title: What's So Amazing About Grace?

text: that are "likely to ruffle some feathers, this compelling book challenges Christians to become a genuine healing force in society". Presbyterian pastor John Buchanan, editor and publisher of "The Christian Century", also reviewed "What's So Amazing About Grace?" that year, writing that "Yancey is such a good writer and such a generous evangelical that even though I occasionally disagree with his conclusions, I'm glad to be in the same family with him". In 2006, "What's So Amazing About Grace?" placed 17th on "Christianity Today"s list of fifty books that had most shaped Evangelicals. That year, Robert Jeffress, pastor of First

title: What's So Amazing About Grace?

text: of several books by Yancey that have become international bestsellers. In "What's So Amazing About Grace?", Yancey discusses grace, calling it "our last best word". The book's thesis is that, although people crave grace and it is centrally important to the gospel, many local churches ignore grace in their quest to exterminate immorality. Yancey uses the word "ungrace" to describe actions that fail to demonstrate grace. According to the author, the greatest gift the Christian Church can give the world is grace, but the church sometimes offers ungrace instead. Yancey writes that there are secular analogues to most Christian activities

title: What's So Amazing About Grace?

text: found helpful during the past three years. "What's So Amazing About Grace?" was one of nine books mentioned by at least two percent of the respondents; the other eight included Rick Warren's "The Purpose Driven Church" and "The Purpose Driven Life" and John C. Maxwell's "The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership". David Charlesworth, Abbot of Buckfast Abbey in Devon, England, commissioned Torbay-based theater company Unleashed Productions to adapt the book's stories for the stage. Neil Pugmire wrote the play and incorporated stories about apartheid, Gordon Wilson's daughter's death in the Remembrance Day bombing, and Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal. He also

title: Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace

text: the Australian rock band AC/DC. "Lost in This Moment" was covered on Keith Anderson's second album, "C'mon!". Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace is the third studio album by American country music duo Big & Rich. It was released on June 5, 2007. The album's lead-off single "Lost In This Moment," became the duo's first Number One single on the Hot Country Songs chart. Also released from this album were the title track and "Loud", which respectively peaked at No. 37 and No. 42 on the same chart. The latter was the first single

title: Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Performances

text: recordings. This set accompanied RCA's mid-1990s compilation reissue program for Elvis Presley, including the five-disc box sets "", "", "", and the two-disc set anthologizing his 1960s soundtrack recordings, "". These nineteen compact discs, containing 507 recordings in total, constitute a substantial percentage of Presley's career output. All selections recorded at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee, the Stax Recording Studio and the Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis, Tennessee. Unknown location for the March 1972 jam session. Original recordings produced by Steve Sholes or Felton Jarvis. Works cited Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Performances Amazing Grace: His

text: Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Performances Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Performances is a two-disc compilation of studio master recordings by American singer and musician Elvis Presley released in 1994 on RCA Records, catalogue number 66421-2. It also includes a booklet with session details and an essay by Charles Wolfe. It was certified double platinum on by the RIAA on July 15, 1999. The set comprises recordings of gospel music made by Presley during his career. The contents of all three gospel albums Presley released in his lifetime are included, while other songs had appeared on singles, an extended play

title: Precious Memories (hymn)

text: gospel album "Appalachian Gospel". A cover by The Stanley Brothers can be heard on Rick Grimes' (Andrew Lincoln) radio at the beginning of "The Walking Dead" fourth-season premiere episode, "30 Days Without An Accident". Susan Raye's cover was in the opening and closing credits sequences of Paul Schrader's crime drama, "Hardcore (1979)". Aretha Franklin recorded a live version of the song for her album "Amazing Grace" (1972) and Ronnie Milsap for his album "Then Sings My Soul" (2009). Precious Memories (hymn) Precious Memories is a traditional gospel song credited to J.B.F. Wright in 1925. J. B. F. Wright was born

title: Amazing Grace

text: sang it at public events such as concerts at Carnegie Hall. Author James Basker states that the song has been employed by African Americans as the "paradigmatic Negro spiritual" because it expresses the joy felt at being delivered from slavery and worldly miseries. Anthony Heilbut, author of "The Gospel Sound", states that the "dangers, toils, and snares" of Newton's words are a "universal testimony" of the African American experience. During the civil rights movement and opposition to the Vietnam War, the song took on a political tone. Mahalia Jackson employed "Amazing Grace" for Civil Rights marchers, writing that she used

title: Amazing Grace

text: probably used in a prayer meeting for the first time on January 1, 1773. A collection of the poems Newton and Cowper had written for use in services at Olney was bound and published anonymously in 1779 under the title "Olney Hymns". Newton contributed 280 of the 348 texts in "Olney Hymns"; "1 Chronicles 17:16–17, Faith's Review and Expectation" was the title of the poem with the first line "Amazing grace! (how sweet the sound)". The general impact of "Olney Hymns" was immediate and it became a widely popular tool for evangelicals in Britain for many years. Scholars appreciated Cowper's

title: Amazing Grace

text: accompanied Newton's verses as much as "New Britain" for a time in the late 19th century. Two musical arrangers named Dwight Moody and Ira Sankey heralded another religious revival in the cities of the U.S. and Europe, giving the song international exposure. Moody's preaching and Sankey's musical gifts were significant; their arrangements were the forerunners of gospel music, and churches all over the U.S. were eager to acquire them. Moody and Sankey began publishing their compositions in 1875, and "Amazing Grace" appeared three times with three different melodies, but they were the first to give it its title; hymns were

title: Amazing Grace

text: is one of the most recognisable songs in the English-speaking world. Author Gilbert Chase writes that it is "without a doubt the most famous of all the folk hymns", and Jonathan Aitken, a Newton biographer, estimates that it is performed about 10 million times annually. It has had particular influence in folk music, and has become an emblematic African American spiritual. Its universal message has been a significant factor in its crossover into secular music. "Amazing Grace" saw a resurgence in popularity in the U.S. during the 1960s and has been recorded thousands of times during and since the 20th

title: Amazing Grace

text: typically published using the first line of the lyrics, or the name of the tune such as "New Britain". A publisher named Edwin Othello Excell gave the version of "Amazing Grace" set to "New Britain" immense popularity by publishing it in a series of hymnals that were used in urban churches. Excell altered some of Walker's music, making it more contemporary and European, giving "New Britain" some distance from its rural folk-music origins. Excell's version was more palatable for a growing urban middle class and arranged for larger church choirs. Several editions featuring Newton's first three stanzas and the verse