Issue 81 John Newton: Author of “Amazing Grace”

Interesting and unusual facts about John Newton’s life and times.

From Bede’s world to Whitefield’s thumb.

The magazine gets a new name.

Wesley’s word to a condemned malefactor.

The original Christian bumper sticker.

His was a tale of two lives, with God at the pivot point.

Chronology of events related to the life of John Newton.

Newton joined those who laid the groundwork for British evangelicalism—from within the Established Church.

The tempest-tossed friendship of John Newton and William Cowper.

Newton responded to thousands of requests for spiritual counsel with letters advising the lowly and the great.

The evangelical underground plotted England’s and the world’s salvation at a London pub.

No Little Women here.

At Marburg, the last hope of a united Protestantism ran aground on the Last Supper.

Charles Simeon’s disciples were known as Sims.

How Amazing Grace went from ignored in Britain to acclaimed in America.