“In an American atmosphere heavy-laden with babel, glossolalia bespeaks the rebuke of the Word of God. Ecstatic utterance witnesses the vitality of the Word against the ineptness of blasphemy. Speaking in tongues is a sign of human beings set free by the Word of God from the captivation of official babel and is an encouragement to all persons still oppressed by babel. Within the surveillance of the Antichrist, this spontaneous, unpredictable, unconformable, liberated witness can only be heard as the sound revolution, though, indeed it be a much greater portent than that. This speaking in tongues heralds the doom of Babylon, warns of the judgment impending upon the Antichrist, joins in the jubilation of the heavenly chorus when the great city falls.”

—William Stringfellow, An Ethic For Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land

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