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    To Tease Our Knowing: A Wry Look at Awry
    To Tease Our Knowing: A Wry Look at Awry
    To Tease Our Knowing: A Wry Look at Awry
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    To Tease Our Knowing: A Wry Look at Awry

    By Jim McPherson

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    This collectionerudite, insightful, observant, realistic, empathetic, playful,
    whimsical, hopefulteases our knowing in the direction of wholeness, personally and
    communally. Thank you, Jim, for the gift.
    Phillip Aspinall, Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane

    Jim McPhersons powerful and engaging collection will be a great resource for
    philosophy and religious studies at both secondary and tertiary levels. You'll want to
    return again and again because they so beautifully illuminate the philosophical and
    the sacred.

    Lana Priebbenow, Fraser Coast Anglican College

    These poems will meet readers in the midst of their own going through experience,
    because much of this writing comes from Jims own earthquakes, large and small.
    His quirky sense of humour reminds us to delight in the joy of every day; the Godbreathed spirit lives between his lines.
    Liz Smythe, Auckland University of Technology

    Jim provides a valuable resource for individual and group contemplation, and a
    gateway into the depths swirling within the sights, thoughts and hopes of what might
    all too easily seem as mundane and unworthy of further thought.

    John Fairbrother, Vaughan Park Retreat Centre
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris AU
    Release dateApr 16, 2014
    ISBN9781493134694
    To Tease Our Knowing: A Wry Look at Awry
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    Jim McPherson

    Now retired, Dan Kassera has been a railroad man, truck and bus driver, and security officer. He was also the founder of the Minnesota Right to Bear Arms Committee and was its state chairman for four years, making many radio and TV appearances. Jim McPherson has worked in advertising, public relations, and award-winning TV commercial and infomercial production for most of his career. He coauthored a jazz opera called “Chet, Monk and Miles: Jazz to the Third Power.”

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      To Tease Our Knowing - Jim McPherson

      Copyright © 2014 by Jim McPherson.

      Artwork A Flight of Fancy, © Marcia McPherson 2011

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Rev. date: 04/11/2014

      To order additional copies of this book, contact:

      Xlibris LLC

      1-800-455-039

      www.xlibris.com.au

      Orders@xlibris.com.au

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      CONTENTS

      Author Information

      Endorsements

      Introduction

      Foreword

      To Tease Our Knowing

      Quirky

      Perichoresis

      Sculpture

      Stories

      Tantalus

      The Pub

      Mr Wistful

      Musket Flat

      Eclipse

      Earthquake

      Master Three

      Seder

      The Ugly Sister

      Bush Funeral

      One Life, One Chance

      Cape Leeuwin

      The Order Of Things

      At Bethany

      Surgery

      Waiting Room:

      Flooding

      Joseph Butler

      God On Trial

      On Rereading Butler’s Analogy

      Maurits Escher

      Wisdom

      Print Gallery

      Signature Cartouche

      The Woman In The Window

      Annunciation

      Lacuna

      Ambush

      Forty Weeks

      Pregnant In Nazareth

      December Humbug

      Setting Course

      Nathanael

      Drawing

      The Passion Of The Christ

      Easter Morning

      It Is Finished

      Rodeo Bull

      Napping

      The Third Time

      John Of Patmos

      The Comedy Of Grace

      Foolish

      Nursing Home Eucharist

      Mirror, Mirror

      Diversional Therapy

      Fr Jacob

      Stop It Or You’ll Go Blind

      Shelling Prawns

      Square-Tailed Kite

      Two Honeyeaters

      Sacred Kingfisher

      Acuity

      Eagle

      Single Malt

      Seam Opal

      Mrs Aldridge’s Bells

      Bells Refurbishment 2012

      Notes

      1. Joseph Butler

      2. Maurits Escher

      3. Dreaming

      4. Tantalus

      5. St Laurence

      Acknowledgments

      AUTHOR INFORMATION

      The Revd Canon Dr Jim McPherson has been professionally schooled in the exacting disciplines of mathematics and theology, and published research articles in both. He entered the Anglican priesthood in 1978, and has served in three dioceses of the Anglican Church of Australia. His lifelong passion has been to discover how things fit together and why they function as they do; he has always had an eye for the quirky and the enigmatic, and a taste for irony. He married Marcia (the cover artist) in 1970 and they now live on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, following Jim’s retirement from fulltime ministry in 2014. This is his first published collection.

      ENDORSEMENTS

      What have readers said about this book?

      For the 21st century, Jim McPherson acknowledges a world which is awry ‘beyond our mend’ in innumerable ways, yet paradoxically teems with joy and cause for celebration, for those with eyes to see. Despite ‘our comic awkwardness … through it all the Spirit shyly sings – her clarity opaque to all but clowns’. Like the Fourth Gospel, Jim’s collection is an invitation to ‘come and see’ extended to all who might allow their knowing to be teased by the glimpses of cosmic wry that also abound and which point to what is yet to be, the setting right of all that is awry.

      This healing collection – erudite, insightful, observant, realistic, empathetic, playful, whimsical, hopeful – teases our knowing in the direction of wholeness, personally and communally. Thank you, Jim, for the gift.

      The Most Revd Dr Phillip Aspinall, Archbishop

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