The new Aretha Franklin documentary Amazing Grace — filmed in 1972 during the live recording sessions for her hit album of the same name, but not available for public viewing until today — is a ...

“We are on our way. . . . We’re on our journey home!” So declares the silver-clad choir, in buoyant triplets, upon entering the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, in Watts, Los Angeles. Theirs is ...

(RNS) — James Walvin, a former Church of England choirboy and professor of history at the University of York, doesn’t remember encountering “Amazing Grace,” in song or in his hymnal. It wasn’t until ...

When my wife and I started dating, she got free tickets to a gospel show at Radio City Music Hall. I never really listened to gospel but was aware of rock and R&B’s debt to it and figured it would be ...

Nearly 50 years after its production, the emotional performance of Franklin's best-selling album doesn't disappoint. Aretha Franklin hardly says a word in “Amazing Grace,” but she sings with an energy ...

What Remains is in theaters and on demand Dec. 2 Tommy McArdle is a Writer-Reporter on the Movies team at PEOPLE. He joined the brand in 2022. The late Anne Heche and the production team of her new ...

Many people think they know the story of the hymn,"Amazing Grace." The commonly accepted narrative presents its composer, John Newton, a young English captain of a late 18th-century slave ship, as a ...