Tongue-tied. (Glossolalia and me).

From: The Christian Century | Date: September 25, 2002| Author: Winner, Lauren F. | Copyright information

THE STORY OF PENTECOST, in the Book of Acts, is where we learn about speaking in tongues. The immediate manifestation of the Spirit in Acts is the apostles' sudden ability to speak in languages they don't know, and to understand one another. It is the inversion, and the restoration, of the Tower of Babel, way back in Genesis, when the people were idolatrous and fighting with each other, and God cursed them all with different languages, rendering them unintelligible to even their ne...

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