Love in Thin Places

Confessions of a Cathedral Chaplain

By: David Grieve, Andrew Tremlett (Foreword by)

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Paperback | 15 February 2019

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In Love in Thin Places, David Grieve, a chaplain at Durham Cathedral, invites us to join him as he walks around the greatest of the Northern cathedrals. In this building that has offered sanctuary, silence and space for prayer to many over the centuries, we meet not only saints like Cuthbert, Bede and Godric but are also confronted with the questions and concerns of today's pilgrims and visitors and not least the chaplain himself.

The poems have been written over a period of thirty years, in some cases as a direct result of personal experiences or impressions received while at the Cathedral. The Cathedral is a Thin Place, where the distance between the close presence of God and the realities of life on earth seems to shorten. This is building with its many functions as a house of worship, music, art and other exhibitions, university graduations and all manner of events is itself a medium through which we can draw closer to God, speaking as it does of him.

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Love in Thin Places is inspired by the particular and local glory of Durham Cathedral. However, the reader does not need to be as familiar as David Grieve with this remarkable house of God in the North-East, for these poems lead us along the inner journey into 'thin places' in our hearts as well as into Gothic architectures. These 54 'confessions', as the author describes them, have been crafted and hammered out in the furnace of his own suffering, struggles and pain. ... The form of these miniatures is most clearly discerned in the sounding out of the cadences and sentences - so here is a pocket-book crying out to be read aloud. There is nothing of easy-rhyming doggerel - there is plenty of that elsewhere. Here the two main resonances are the living stones of Durham and the phrases linked to familiar biblical images. But we need to listen carefully and hear with attentiveness - they are such 'thin places'.

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