Between Two Worlds

The book I'm most excited to read next is Jonathan Aitken's biography, John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace, which I just received. Aitken has previously written major biographies on Richard Nixon and Chuck Colson.

Here are some of the blurbs:

“A rip-roaring adventure, a passionate romance, and an astonishing journey of faith all in one. I knew the story well, but this telling made a deep impression on me.”
Os Guinness, author of The Call

“Jonathan Aitken’s fast-paced, well-researched, and detailed book shows why Newton was such an important figure. This is a book to read, ponder, and read again.”
Mark Noll, Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History, University of Notre Dame

“A fresh, insightful, and inspiring account of this great figure. With that rare skill of a superb biographer, Aitken brings Newton to life for a new generation of admirers.”
Alister McGrath, Professor of Historical Theology, Oxford University

“Skilled biographer that he is, my friend Jonathan Aitken has brought to life one of eighteenth-century England’s most influential Christians. The story of amazing grace both in the life of Newton and in the song that has become the Christian national anthem.”
Chuck Colson, founder, Prison Fellowship

“Only God could take a vile slave trader and turn him into a useful instrument in abolishing the slave trade and igniting a gospel revival, the flames of which are burning still. The story of Newton’s life inspires all who seek to follow the path of Jesus today.”
Timothy George, Dean of Beeson Divinity School of Samford University; Executive Editor, Christianity Today

“An informed, authoritative biography of the man who played a critical role in helping William Wilberforce abolish the slave trade. His life story is absolutely spell-binding. I could not put the book down.”
Armand M. Nicholi Jr., M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; author of The Question of God

“A new life of John Newton is a fitting celebration of the bicentennial both of Newton’s death and of the abolition of the slave trade, Wilberforce’s triumph in which Newton played a key role. Master biographer Jonathan Aitken is in fine form, sympathetic, insightful, scholarly, and vivid, and his book, like its subject, must be rated spectacular.”
J. I. Packer, Board of Governors’ Professor of Theology, Regent College