The Open University’s Music Department, the Cowper & Newton Museum and St Peter & St Paul Church, Olney are delighted to be co-hosting this conference as part of a year-long programme of events to commemorate the 250th anniversary of ‘Amazing Grace’, written by the Rev John Newton to accompany his sermon for his 1773 New Year’s Day service in Olney.
10.00-10.45 Registration/Tea and coffee
10.45-12.00 Keynote Lecture: Professor D. Bruce Hindmarsh, ‘Dangers, Toils, and Snares: Grace in the Life of John Newton, Then and Now’
12.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.15 Keynote Lecture 2: Professor Anthony G. Reddie, ‘Amazing Grace and Cheap Grace: Learning from The Cross and the Lynching Tree’
15.15-15.45 Tea and coffee
15.45-17.00 Roundtable panel
Chair: The Rev’d Jonathan Aikten
Participants: The Rt Rev’d Rose Hudson-Wilkin, the Rev’d Dr Janet Wootton, Ms Marylynn Rouse, Director of the John Newton Project
17.00-17.30 Lecture-recital: Alexander Douglas (piano), ‘A Sacred Journey: From the Olney Hymns to the Antebellum South’
For more information visit the Museum Website
