{"id":1468,"date":"2007-11-14T17:35:47","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T17:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2007\/11\/amazing-grace-dvd-giveaway.html"},"modified":"2007-11-14T17:35:47","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T17:35:47","slug":"amazing-grace-dvd-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2007\/11\/amazing-grace-dvd-giveaway.html","title":{"rendered":"Win an &#8216;Amazing Grace&#8217; DVD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"AmazingGracePicforContest.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/import\/AmazingGracePicforContest.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"175\" style=\"float:right;margin: 5px\">The film &#8220;Amazing Grace&#8221;&#8211;which was released on DVD yesterday&#8211;tells the story of William Wilberforce, who led the successful effort to abolish slavery in 18th-century Britain. He was inspired by a former slave trader who wrote the widely known hymn.<br \/>\nTo celebrate the release of the film, Beliefnet is giving away 10 copies of the DVD.<br \/>\nThere are two ways for you to enter:<br \/>\n1) Post a comment below by November 27th telling us what the hymn &#8220;Amazing Grace&#8221; means to you. Make sure you include your email address in the designated area (it won&#8217;t be made public).<br \/>\n2) Or, show us what the song means to you by uplaoding your own version of &#8220;Amazing Grace.&#8221; To do this, <a href=\"http:\/\/community.beliefnet.com\/audio\" target=\"_blank\">visit the Beliefnet Community site and click &#8220;Upload Audio&#8221; to add your own audio file<\/a> of the song (also, by November 27th).  Please note, you must log in with your Beliefnet user name and password first. 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