"The story of a youth who was a virtual slave in Sierra Leone before ironically becoming a slave trader himself." -Amazing Grace in John Newton: Slave Ship Captain (2004)"Experiences as captain of a slave ship led him to join the ministry and campaign against the evils of slavery." -Slave Ship Captain: The Story of John Newton (1975)"Amazing Grace...was written by former slave trader John Newton...incredible life story." -Amazing Grace: The Story...

John Newton is voor velen zeer bekend. Hij was slavenhandelaar maar werd na zijn bekering predikant. Zijn leven zat vol gevaren, reizen en nog veel meer. Jongeren en ouderen lezen graag over deze avonturen. De geloofskennis die hij in al deze ervaringen opdeed, deelde hij met iedereen die hem schreef. Newton heeft heel veel brieven nagelaten. Het doel van dit boek is om deze brieven te openen, zodat je vandaag nog kunt leren van een wijze, praktische en evenwichtige man. Velen, voor wie de...

Engeland, 1763 Dominee John Newton krijgt van een nieuwgierige vriend het verzoek om zijn levensverhaal te schrijven. In de veertien brieven die Newton aan zijn vriend stuurt, doet hij verslag van zijn avontuurlijke en wonderlijke leven. Eigenzinnig en onbedachtzaam als hij was, volgde hij zijn eigen hart en kwam in de grootste moeilijkheden. Newton vertelt hoe hij als slaaf op een bijna onbewoond eiland woonde, hoe hij werd bevrijd en hoe hij ten slotte door God uit de duisternis tot Zijn...

We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation ? John Newton was a slave trader who had a dramatic conversion to Christianity, after which he studied to be a minister. He was then appointed to the rural parish of Olney, a community largely inhabited by the impoverished and uneducated. There he met William Cowper , an eminent poet who had moved to Olney after a bout ...

The white colonizers of Australia suffered from Alliumphobia, a fear of garlic. Before garlic we had meat and potatoes; after garlic, what we ate got much more interesting. Renowned food writer John Newton visits fine dining restaurants, the cafes and mid-range restaurants, and heads home to the dinner tables as he samples what everyday people have eaten over the centuries. His observations and recipes show what has changed and what hasn't changed.

Alex's life seems ordinary—until vivid memories of battles, spacecrafts, and ancient empires haunt his dreams, threatening his grip on reality. As a mysterious illness takes hold, these visions intensify, pushing him to question his very identity. Desperation forces him to seek help, leading him down a path where the past, present, and future collide.When a strange man approaches him with cryptic messages, Alex's reality unravels. Are these just side effects of stress, or is there ...

John Newton is now best remembered as an Anglican clergyman and the author of the hymn Amazing Grace. For the first thirty years of his life, however, he was engrossed in the slave trade. His father planned for him to take up a position as slave master on a West Indies plantation but he was instead pressed into the Royal Navy where, after attempting to desert, he was captured and flogged round the fleet. After this humiliation he was placed in service on a slave ship bound for Sierra Leone...

In "Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade," John Newton emerges as a profound moral commentator, delving into the harrowing realities of the transatlantic slave trade. Written with a poignant blend of personal reflection and theological inquiry, the book provides a compelling critique of the inhumanity and ethical dilemmas surrounding slavery. Newton's narrative, steeped in the context of 18th-century Britain, synthesizes vivid personal experiences and biblical admonitions, forging a power...

In a remote research facility nestled on a volcanic island, Kutisha works alone with Prometheus, a sentient AI with a counselor's touch. Working through the night to uncover the mysteries of gravitational waves, Kutisha throws herself into her work to avoid dealing with the grief of her dead husband. But when a military lab leak unleashes an army of menacing nanites—dubbed "Mind Leaches"—her routine shatters into chaos.As the facility's defenses crumble and time runs out, the threa...

“Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me…” So begins one of the most beloved hymns of all time. This is the autobiography of the man who penned those words. John Newton, the self-proclaimed “wretch,” was an active slave trader for several years until, on a homeward voyage through a violent storm, he experienced what he was later to refer to as his “great deliverance.” He tells of the events that led him from sin and bondage to a life transformed by God’s amazing grac...

John Newton hated being a sailor. The ships officers treated him terribly. John wondered how God could have let this happen to him. Every day he got angrier and angrier. He fought with everyone and stole whenever he got the chance. By the time he was seventeen, he had about the worst reputation in the whole navy! John prayed that God would get him off the horrible warship. But in His Amazing Grace, God had other plans for a young man shunned as “the worst of the worst,” changed into a man of ...

Its momentum building, the “Jesus Movement” is unfolding, with Episcopalians longing to embody our branch of the movement in the world. John Newton’s contribution is this look at God’s reckless love. His aim is not for the head, but for the heart, to connect people with their passion and love for Jesus Christ, reawakening what may be dormant, because ultimately, it is not clever ideas but passion that mobilizes people. The Jesus Movement is not about our move toward God, but about a God wh...