This type of speaking in tongues, glossolalia, is seen by modern Christians to be related to the practice of the earliest Christian churches as described by Paul in 1 Corinthians 12-14. Especially in ...

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 think it’s no coincidence that my first column this year centres on language, what it means to a society and the ...

UNDER the 1996 constitution, all 11 of South Africa's official languages “must enjoy parity of esteem and be treated equitably”. In practice English, the mother tongue of just 8% of the people, ...