The early Christians were much impressed by the phenomenon known as glossolalia (literally, “speaking with tongues”), which appeared at the first Pentecost: “And they were all filled with the Holy ...

Members of some Christian sects have been known to utter a meaningless language of sounds that they say are divinely inspired. According to some Penn researchers, these people really do experience an ...

Either you don't feel it or you feel it to your core. "Speaking in tongues" is referred to as a miraculous ability to speak a language without first having learned it. The Bible shows that speaking in ...

Speaking in tongues has long been seen as a spiritual mystery — but neuroscience is beginning to explain what’s really happening. Brain scans reveal unique patterns of language processing, control, ...

PANAMA CITY — Six-year-old Abigail Fehnrich used a long stick to point out Chinese symbols on a classroom wall, sounding them out as she moved to the next symbol and the next, constructing a complete ...

“It’s a puzzle that I think the audience will enjoy solving,” said Bob Moss about “Speaking in Tongues,” the play he directs and which opens on Thursday, April 12, at SUNY Cortland. “The play ...

The South African author J.M. Coetzee, now 85 years old, is renowned for his austere, intellectually rigorous novels such as “Disgrace” (1999) and “The Childhood of Jesus” (2013), and his scrupulous ...

I was determined to teach my son my native Arabic. But raising a truly bilingual child takes a village, I learned. By Nashwa Gowanlock This story was originally published on Sept. 5, 2019 in NYT ...