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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Determined to instill in his son a sense of pride and cultural identity from the first day of his life, Phumlani Zwane applied for the child’s birth certificate to be ...

What precisely is language, and how did humans acquire it? In an effort to answer those essential questions, this program journeys back to prehistoric times in search of language's origin. Additional ...

Signs and gestures -- Interpreters -- Confusion of tongues -- Language barriers under siege -- Speaking the word of God -- Catechists and catechism -- The word of God -- The problem of meaning -- ...

Nigeria with its diverse cultural heritage and impressive linguistic diversity, boasts over 500 distinct indigenous languages. However, many of these languages are gradually fading away due to the ...

Words are coined and money talks, but the link between linguistics and economics is more than metaphor. Most notably, as Ross Perlin writes in his superb “Language City: The Fight to Preserve ...

Although I now speak and think in English, my first words were not in this language. I was raised by a village of relatives; as a result, I grew up speaking in a patchwork of Cantonese, Mandarin and ...