“Amazing Grace” is the well-known hymn written more than 250 years ago by pastor John Newton. To celebrate the songwriter’s 300th birthday, Haven Ministries and Kappa Studios released a one-of-a-kind docudrama.
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 | | ‘Amazing Grace: The Untold Story’ | | By Rebecca Day | | “Amazing Grace” is the well-known hymn written more than 250 years ago by pastor John Newton. To celebrate the songwriter’s 300th birthday, Haven Ministries and Kappa Studios released a one-of-a-kind docudrama. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 📚 Book Review: “A Traitor in the FBI,” a wild mole hunt: The documents detailed U.S. military secrets and exposed KGB agents who were spying on behalf of Washington. 🎨 Fine Arts: Two Philadelphia art museums will celebrate America’s 250th anniversary with a stupendous joint exhibition. Unprecedented in scope and scale, “A Nation of Artists” spans three centuries of American art through more than 1,000 paintings, photographs, sculptures, decorative arts, and other items. 🎶 Music: Kate Smith, the voice of “God Bless America”: The song is brilliantly inspiring in and of itself, but there was something about the way Smith sang it that captured the hearts (and ears) of the American people. | | | |   | | ‘The Sound of Music’: Love’s Holy Harmony: It’s late 1930s Austria, as the thick clouds of Nazism are about to darken the hills. A spirited Maria (Julie Andrews) sings, “the hills are alive,” with songs they have sung “for a thousand years.” This is code for eternity. The hills fill her heart with the sound of music. Read more → | | | | |
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