Members of Macungie Baptist Church speak in tongues, he said, but infrequently. Seidel said he first spoke in tongues while praying at home. He now does so mainly during his prayers.

The 40-member church is among many nationwide that are reducing or cutting out speaking in tongues as they become more popular and move to the mainstream.

Speaking in tongues is so central to the 3 million-member, Missouri-based Assemblies of God, that denominational leaders voted unanimously to reaffirm it as doctrine, at the church's General ...

STEELE, Mo. —At the beginning of an evening worship service at the First Assembly of God church, the Rev. Ryan Harris pitted teens against adults in a trivia game called Battle of the Generations.

The 40-member church is among many nationwide that are reducing or cutting out speaking in tongues as they become more popular and move to the mainstream. It’s a shift that has unsettled some ...

Amanda says speaking in tongues is one of the charismatic gifts of the spirit, something embraced by Pentecostal Christians, along with faith healing and being slain in the spirit.

Leaders at the Fort Worth seminary said the statement conflicted with the SBC's International Mission Board, which voted in November to ban missionaries from speaking in tongues in private.

AT THE HISTORIC MADISON Ave. Baptist Church in midtown Manhattan, they often worship to a different drummer, namely a 33-year-old Brooklynite who plays meditation music on something called a tongue… ...