The Vows of a Freed Man
On the first day of every new year, John Newton sat at his desk and wrote a prayer of thanksgiving. He had kept this practice...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 116:12-13, 15-18.
On the first day of every new year, John Newton sat at his desk and wrote a prayer of thanksgiving. He had kept this practice since 1773, the year he penned Amazing Grace, but the habit stretched back further — to a night in 1748 when a violent storm nearly sank the slave ship he crewed off the coast of Ireland.…
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