The Gift of Tongues

In 1986, I was leaving Montreal and was going to be coming back to Oxford as a college chaplain as well as the university lecturer. A cousin of mine said that it may well be that God will give you a gift like the gift of tongues. The next thing I knew, I was praying in tongues. This wasn't supposed to happen. It's not given to everybody, but I find for certain purposes it's really just significant. Some of the most prayerful people I know would be in quite other traditions, like say the Russian Orthodox or whatever. And fine, hallelujah. They have their problems. We have our problems.