A few years ago, journalist Bill Moyers created a documentary based on the hymn “Amazing Grace.”  One of the more unusual scenes in the film takes place at a massive benefit concert in England.  All day, fans had been blasted with hard-driving rock music.  Strangely, the concert organizers had scheduled opera singer Jessye Norman to close the concert. 

Fans reacted negatively when Ms. Norman first took the stage.  Here was a middle-aged Black woman without any back-up band.  But she silenced the crowds with her opening line:

“Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!”