John Lambert

When you consider that we spend about a third of our lives sleeping, it’s amazing how little thought we give to it.   When I was a child I used to hate having to go to bed and I conceived any number of ingenious excuses to creep back downstairs again and postpone the inevitable; (I’m not sleepy, I’m thirsty, I think there might be monsters under my bed, I’m too hot, I’m too cold, there’s a strange noise, my teeth itch…). My own children were even more creative than I was. But by the time they...

Here are a few facts and figures I have gleaned over the years about the human body.   You’re a marvel of creation: 50,000 cells in your body will have died and been replaced by new cells in the time it takes you to read this sentence.   Your fingerprints were fully formed three months after conception. Mathematicians have calculated the theoretical probability of two sets of identical fingerprints (and these dear people possibly need to get out more) as 1 in 1,000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000,...

What will happen to people who never hear about Jesus?   One of the big questions Christians sometimes ask is, What about people who die...