Worship: Blue Tongues

Glossolalia has come to Yale. The ability to "speak in tongues," possessed by the Apostles at the first Pentecost, has long been claimed by fundamentalist Protestant sects. In the last three years, glossolalia has also been tried out by a number of Lutheran and Episcopal churches in the Middle and Far West. Now 20 students in the secular, skeptical confines of Yale University report that they can pray in the spontaneous outpouring of syllables that sounds like utter babble to most listeners, but has a special meaning to the "gifted."

The GlossoYalies are far from being Holy Rollers. One is...

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