SIDEBAR Feeling the spirit, faithful speak out in tongues

From: The Boston Globe | Date: November 13, 1994| Author: Larry Tye, Globe Staff | Copyright information

It's the most distinctive feature of Pentecostalism -- and the most misunderstood.

It's called speaking in tongues or, more technically, glossolalia.

And it all started, the conduct and the confusion, back in biblical days.

The New Testament contains at least 35 references to glossolalia, more than for the Virgin Birth. The one cited most often by Pentecostals is in Chapter 2 of the Book of Acts, where Jews who had gathered from around the world suddenly begin speaking in ...

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