Partners in Praise

Partners in Praise (1979). This is the title of a collection published in 1979 by Stainer and Bell Ltd, in conjunction with the Division of Education and Youth of the British Methodist Church. An edition appeared in the USA in 1982 (Nashville, Tennessee: Abingdon Press). The explicit aim was to provide material that could be used in worship by adults and children together (the ‘partners’ of the title), and to use contemporary hymns and tunes. The editors were Fred Pratt Green* and Bernard Braley (words) and Allen Percival and T. Brian Coleman (music). Printed in bright colours and ring-bound, the book was designed to look different from traditional hymnbooks. Its 177 hymns were divided...

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