Praise (Salacious Players' Club)

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The honesty was stark and for me this is the book's raison d'etre; Gordon's reasoning about how the world 'worked' or how it didn't and his self analysis was unflinchingly honest, cringe worthy and sometimes downright funny. The crudeness and explicit sex scenes added to the base feeling the story has. I sang many of these hymns at my infants school between 1979 and 1982. Our Morning Assembly was held in the school hall three times every week. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. I have vivid and powerful memories of us singing these songs with a projector projecting the words on a big screen so we could all sing them. Our teacher bashing the piano and invariably telling us to sing a lot louder as God would just not hear us. This 'Come And Praise' hymn book was central to the collective worship at my school - right up until I left in 1985 when the last hymn we sung together was 'One More Step'. This book is a one-volume compilation of the hymn books "Come and Praise 1" (1978) and "Come and Praise 2" (1989).

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With One Voice [Australian Hymn Book] (including Catholic supplement) – Collins/HarperCollins Religious 1979 The words presented for both the verses and the chorus are slightly different to the traditional words for this hymn. With a better understanding of Australia, I do see why it won awards (aside from the fact that Australian awards committees’ looooove depressing novels, witness The Hand That Signed The Paper). The characters are vivid and their world experience gritty as well as squalid, it is based in a town and culture that has seen little enough literary exposure even today, let alone on the 1990’s. btw, I really enjoyed reading a novel set in Brisbane, QLD and the 90’s. Still depressing though.

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Praise is an utterly frank and darkly humorous novel about being young in the Australia of the 1990s.”

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It was the first book, almost one of the few books, I've read, where sex was a way the female character used to deal with physical pain, and perhaps also inner tumult. They were having sex cause they were both available, not because they were in love or crazy about each other physically. Congregational Praise – Congregational Church in England & Wales/Independent Press Ltd/URC in UK 1951 These two books were published by BBC Active (an imprint of Education Publishers, Pearson Education Group) so that listeners to the BBC's school radio assembly programme "Together" could join in the singing. Bring Many Names (Brian Wren) – Hope Publishing Company (distributed in Europe by Stainer & Bell Ltd) 1989 I know some people object to this sort of religious education and collective worship in schools but, from my own very personal experience, I think it is extremely important. It is something that should happen and should also continue. For I can just honestly say these hymns were a crucial part of my own spiritual, moral and religious development. Indeed I have to admit, as a boy, I found morning worship to be extremely profound. I took it very seriously and looked forward to it. I looked forward to being with God in the school hall so I could encounter Him. So I could just be with Him and worship Him. I clearly remember experiencing or seeing God in my assemblies. It was amazing. An experience that I'll always treasure.

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Songs from the Psalms – Jubilate/Church Pastoral Aid Society/Hodder & Stoughton/Hodder Headline plc 1990 I was writing at the time that McGahan had "Praise" published and I used to dream of finishing a novel that would win the Australian/Vogel Literary Award that McGahan won for “Praise.” It was an award for writers under 35.The first chapter sees Gordon -- an unpublished poet in his early twenties “living” in Brisbane – quitting his job at a bottle shop. This is a level of ambition he retains pretty steadily throughout the novel’s next twelve months (despite the career change, he does manage to retain a close proximity to alcohol). The storyline, if there is a storyline, loosely follows his tempestuous romance with Cynthia, a neurotic nymphomaniac with similar life aspirations to Gordon, and by far the crowning achievement of Mr. McGahan’s novel. They drink (which isn’t described in much detail) have sex (which is) and occasionally socialise. Later Hymns & Ballads & Fifty Poems (Fred Pratt Green) – Hope Publishing Company and Stainer & Bell Ltd 1989 This excellent book by Christopher Idle discusses the authorship, composition and character of every item in the Praise! Hymnbook. Searchable using full-text search or terms such as author, theme, events, keywords, titles of our Lord Jesus Christ, and places.