{"id":755,"date":"2006-10-31T16:14:33","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T00:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2006\/10\/31\/research-on-glossolalia\/"},"modified":"2006-10-31T16:14:33","modified_gmt":"2006-11-01T00:14:33","slug":"research-on-glossolalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/10\/31\/research-on-glossolalia","title":{"rendered":"Research On Glossolalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2006\/10\/061030183100.htm\">some cut\u00adting-edge research about speak\u00ading in tongues<\/a> (you may have also seen this referred to as \u201cglos\u00adso\u00adlalia\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Sum\u00adma\u00adry quote: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe noticed a num\u00adber of changes that occurred func\u00adtion\u00adal\u00adly in the brain,\u201d com\u00adments Prin\u00adci\u00adpal Inves\u00adti\u00adga\u00adtor Andrew New\u00adberg, MD, Asso\u00adciate Pro\u00adfes\u00adsor of Radi\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy, Psy\u00adchi\u00ada\u00adtry, and Reli\u00adgious Stud\u00adies, and Direc\u00adtor for the Cen\u00adter for Spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty and the Mind, at Penn. \u201cOur find\u00ading of decreased activ\u00adi\u00adty in the frontal lobes dur\u00ading the prac\u00adtice of speak\u00ading in tongues is fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading because these sub\u00adjects tru\u00adly believe that the spir\u00adit of God is mov\u00ading through them and con\u00adtrol\u00adling them to speak. Our brain imag\u00ading research shows us that these sub\u00adjects are not in con\u00adtrol of the usu\u00adal lan\u00adguage cen\u00adters dur\u00ading this activ\u00adi\u00adty, which is con\u00adsis\u00adtent with their descrip\u00adtion of a lack of inten\u00adtion\u00adal con\u00adtrol while speak\u00ading in tongues.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I pass this along because we so often focus on research find\u00adings which seem to chal\u00adlenge the faith (or more fre\u00adquent\u00adly on research find\u00adings which chal\u00adlenge our inter\u00adpre\u00adta\u00adtion of the faith), it\u2019s always inter\u00adest\u00ading to spot those that cor\u00adre\u00adspond to exact\u00adly what we would expect based upon a straight\u00adfor\u00adward read\u00ading of the Bible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read about some cut\u00adt\u00ading-edge research about speak\u00ading in tongues (you may have also seen this referred to as \u201cglos\u00adso\u00adlalia\u201d). Sum\u00adma\u00adry quote: \u201cWe noticed a num\u00adber of changes that occurred func\u00adtion\u00adal\u00adly in the brain,\u201d com\u00adments Prin\u00adci\u00adpal Inves\u00adti\u00adga\u00adtor Andrew New\u00adberg, MD, Asso\u00adciate Pro\u00adfes\u00adsor of Radi\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy, Psy\u00adchi\u00ada\u00adtry, and Reli\u00adgious Stud\u00adies, and Direc\u00adtor for the Cen\u00adter for \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/10\/31\/research-on-glossolalia\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cResearch On Glos\u00adso\u00adlalia\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-of-random-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-cb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}