n. The peculiar phenomenon, commonly called ‘speaking in tongues’. in which an individual who has been placed in a kind of trance produces a connected sequence of speech sounds which are clearly not utterances in any language known to...

GLOSSOLALIA (from the Greek glōssa, "tongue, language," and lalein, "to talk") is a nonordinary speech behavior that is institutionalized as a religious ritual in numerous Western and non-Western religious...

Glossolalia (from Greek glossa γλώσσα "tongue, language" and λαλειν "to talk") is the vocalizing of fluent speech-like but unintelligible utterances, often as part of religious practice. Its use (including use in this article) sometimes also...

Religion and science can combine to create some thorny questions: Does God exist outside the human mind, or is God a creation of our brains? Why do we have faith in things that we cannot prove, whether it's the afterlife or UFOs?The new Center for...

Religion and science can combine to create some thorny questions: Does God exist outside the human mind, or is God a creation of our brains? Why do we have faith in things that we cannot prove, whether it's the afterlife or UFOs?The new Center for...

The outgoing leader of the National Council of Churches, the Rev. Bob Edgar, has been named head of Common Cause, a national advocacy group based in Washington.Edgar, 63, had said in October that he would not seek a third term as general secretary of the...