There is much confusion in the religious world pertaining to the nature of the “gift of tongues” mentioned in the New Testament. Some assert that speaking in tongues involved uttering unintelligible ...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have performed the first brain-scan study on a group of Pentecostal practitioners while they were speaking in tongues, a practice also known as ...

I recently saw an article in the Anchorage Daily News, "Bill making Alaska Native languages 'official' gets pushback," about the apparent "push back" House Bill 216, the bill to make the 20 Alaska ...

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The question Jesus asked the Jews about John the Baptist’s authority can well be asked about another matter, speaking in tongues: Is it from heaven or from men? Is it a manifestation of divine power ...

THE 7400 or so languages in use today speak to the fact that our species is primed to communicate. But while it is tempting to view language as merely a consequence of our extraordinary cognitive ...

Hebrew carries the law; the community speaks in many registers. Diaspora languages are operating grammars of intimacy, trade, humor, and prayer. Languages rarely die; they migrate and sleep inside ...

Talk is cheap, but scientific value lurks in all that gab. Words cascading out of countless flapping gums contain secrets about the evolution of language that a new breed of researchers plan to expose ...

The actress, a devout Christian, calls speaking in tongues "a heavenly language" and "an act of worship" Michael Rowe/Getty Andra Day’s connection with God helped her performance in The Deliverance, ...