speaking in tongues

No wonder I think this 'ability' is complete nonsense and absolute sillyness! I don't have the gift to interpret it! Or so explains a possible republican candidate in Alaska (can't post a link yet - someone please do so for me)...

I witnessed a speaking in tongue incident at church a few years back. I was curious if there is any inside info on this: Here is the basic breakdown of what happens; The minister is speaking about a story in the bible, perhaps starts into a prayer, and in the middle of the...

At my dad's nursing home, I've come to know another gentleman there and chat with him most evenings. He isn't a bible thumper by any means, but he was raised in a fairly serious Christian family, and the churches he attented included speaking-in-tongues and faith healing, and occasionally...

According to authoritive sources like The Exorcist, speaking in tongues can be recognised as such, because it can't be recognised as something else. How do churches differentiate between "genuine" tongues and pretending to be tongues? You can't tell me that for every Tongue-speaker, the Vatican...

I just wrote an article about speaking in tongues for Australasian Science, based on a short investigation. It's now available on the magazine's website: http://www.control.com.au/bi2007/288skeptic.pdf Karen Stollznow.

I think it's called glossolalia? Anyways, one of the things I'm interested along with studying the brain is language. What I'd be interesting in is how people speaking in tongues is studied across cultures. I noticed when I was younger and attended a Pentacostal church and seeing Jesus Camp...