EDITOR'S NOTE: This Paper Pulpit religion commentary was originally published on April 5, 2008. The Apostle Paul wrote and spoke much about the subject of speaking in “other tongues.” And he ...

This type of speaking in tongues, glossolalia, is seen by modern Christians to be related to the practice of the earliest Christian churches as described by Paul in 1 Corinthians 12-14. Especially in ...

LOS ANGELES – At Three Crosses Church, Pastor Ken Walters urges his parishioners to join him in song and scripture. The charismatic 58-year-old extends his arms skyward and belts out melodies praising ...

Last week, a Kentucky pastor died after refusing to be treated for a religion-induced snake bite. That practice is only found in Appalachian churches. But speaking in tongues is a Pentecostal ...

For most of Christian America, this is not an age of baptism. Among Southern Baptists, the country's largest evangelical Protestant denomination, the ritual has been in steady and steep decline. The ...

I grew up with two languages, with my mind shifting back and forth. We spoke English at home because my parents wanted my sister and me to be proficient in the dominant idiom of this new country.

Andra Day’s connection with God helped her performance in The Deliverance, she tells PEOPLE. In the new horror movie directed by Lee Daniels, the actress and singer, 39, plays Ebony Jackson, an ...