I first became aware of speaking in tongues in the summer of 1970. I was sixteen and on a trip with some friends to Roanoke, Virginia, where we spent a night on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute. The discussion turned to spiritual things and then to the phenomenon of speaking in other tongues. A copy of John Sherrill's "They Speak with Other Tongues" was produced, and I began my lifelong study of the subject. Less than two years later,...