In this Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013 photo, Pastor Ken Walters ... the traditional trappings of a Pentecostal service, there is one notable absence: speaking in tongues, a defining trait of the faith.

“I started on my knees and from there I was lying down,” said the Bethlehem woman ... In one case, a pastor asked some members to refrain from speaking in tongues because it frightened ...

LOS ANGELES – At Three Crosses Church, Pastor Ken Walters ... the traditional trappings of a Pentecostal service, there is one notable absence: speaking in tongues, a defining trait of the ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - While the small Assemblies of God congregation goes through all the traditional trappings of a Pentecostal service, there is one notable absence: speaking in tongues ...

The practice is known as glossolalia, or speaking in tongues, and features prominently in some forms of Pentecostal ... to the poor. White was previously the senior pastor of the nondenominational ...

LOS ANGELES — At Three Crosses Church, Pastor Ken Walters ... the traditional trappings of a Pentecostal service, there is one notable absence: speaking in tongues, a defining trait of the ...

Pioneered by a turn-of-the-century Kansas Methodist preacher ... the gift of speaking in tongues, it can be an ecstatic occurrence. Glossolalia usually happens at the climax of a Pentecostal ...