About Me
This is a personal website of Dr. Norman Walford
This is a personal website of Dr. Norman Walford
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A short secular autobiography
I was born in England and qualified in Medicine from
Cambridge University in 1976.
After training in Cellular Pathology I have pursued a varied
career in hospitals in Holland, Saudi Arabia, United Arab
Emirates, and latterly in Singapore, my current home.
I have had an academic interest in children's pathology,
and in 1993 gained a PhD from Amsterdam University on
the subject of kidney tumors in children.
Currently I work part-time in UK and Singapore hospitals to
support a writing career.
I was born in England and qualified in Medicine from
Cambridge University in 1976.
After training in Cellular Pathology I have pursued a varied
career in hospitals in Holland, Saudi Arabia, United Arab
Emirates, and latterly in Singapore, my current home.
I have had an academic interest in children's pathology,
and in 1993 gained a PhD from Amsterdam University on
the subject of kidney tumors in children.
Currently I work part-time in UK and Singapore hospitals to
support a writing career.
. . . and the Pharisee Church?
After becoming a Christian in my first year of University, and subsequently spending
time as a cult member, I spent many years as a chronic church-hopper, struggling
unsuccessfully to integrate. All too often God and the church seemed to be pulling in
opposite directions.
All became a lot clearer with my dawning understanding of the Pharisee Principle and
the Pharisee Church, those taboo subjects that everyone seemed to rationalize out of
existence.
The last couple of years have been taken up with writing How to Survive in the
Pharisee Church and Other Questions* for Confused Christians.
The end of the odyssey is getting very close, and I hope the book will finally be
available before the end of this year (2009).
After becoming a Christian in my first year of University, and subsequently spending
time as a cult member, I spent many years as a chronic church-hopper, struggling
unsuccessfully to integrate. All too often God and the church seemed to be pulling in
opposite directions.
All became a lot clearer with my dawning understanding of the Pharisee Principle and
the Pharisee Church, those taboo subjects that everyone seemed to rationalize out of
existence.
The last couple of years have been taken up with writing How to Survive in the
Pharisee Church and Other Questions* for Confused Christians.
The end of the odyssey is getting very close, and I hope the book will finally be
available before the end of this year (2009).
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*I've been repeatedly told by those who claim to understand
these things that How to Survive in the Pharisee Church is
not really a question, so the title is inappropriate. All I can say
is that it's been a big question for me, so the title stays.
these things that How to Survive in the Pharisee Church is
not really a question, so the title is inappropriate. All I can say
is that it's been a big question for me, so the title stays.
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Another (formerly) buried church, the archetypal 'church built on sand' is ST. ENEDOC, TREBETHERICK, CORNWALL, The church was built among shifting sand dunes. The oldest parts date from the 12th century. From the 16th century to the middle of the 19th century the church was almost completely buried by the moving sands, giving it its popular name among the local people of "Sinking Neddy". To maintain its entitlement to tithes from the surrounding landowners, the church had to hold a service at least once a year. To do this the vicar and parishioners made a hole in the roof and were lowered into the sanctuary, this being the only means of access left to them. In the 19th century the church was dug out and the dunes stabilized with vegetation. More recently the church has become know as the burial place of the poet John Betjeman. This is incidentally another church with a bent spire. Click HERE for more churches |