Articles in this Issue
John Newton: Did You Know?
Interesting and unusual facts about John Newton’s life and times
Living History
From Bede’s world to Whitefield’s thumb
Eyewitness
Wesley’s word to a condemned malefactor.
Story Behind
The original Christian bumper sticker
The Amazingly Graced Life of John Newton
His was a tale of two lives, with God at the pivot point.
The American Anthem
How Amazing Grace went from ignored in Britain to acclaimed in America
Forging Britain’s Gospel Era
Newton joined those who laid the groundwork for British evangelicalism—from within the Established Church.
The Captain & the Castaway
The tempest-tossed friendship of John Newton and William Cowper
Pastor to the Nation
Newton responded to thousands of requests for spiritual counsel with letters advising the lowly and the great.
Not a Synod but a Salon
The evangelical underground plotted England’s and the world’s salvation at a London pub.
People Worth Knowing
No Little Women here
Turning Point: Luther’s Lost Opportunity
At Marburg, the last hope of a united Protestantism ran aground on the Last Supper.