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What Speaking in Tongues Does to Your Brain

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, ...
Many see the controversial practice as a 'gift from God.' March 20, 2007— -- Speaking in tongues is a controversial practice to many Christians, but others consider it a gift from God. And many ...
“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 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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
“Man invented language!” That was the thesis that Johann Gottfried von Herder advanced in a famous 1772 essay that won the prize offered by the Berlin Academy for the most satisfactory answer to the ...