Holy Ghost Language School
From Blueberry Boat
Holy Ghost Language School (song) here
Contents |
Tracklisting
3. The Cross And The Switchblade
4. I Started Using Alcohol At The Age Of Eleven
6. Azusa St.
8. A Mystical Preparative To Lewdness
12. All In Vain Or The Opposite
Further Reading
Cross and the switchblade - A film from 1970, based on an autobiographical novel about a preacher who helps some drug addicts by converting them to Christianity.
Narita with 26 yen in my pocket - phrase appears again in Hialeah
Glossolalia and America
From Wikipedia:
William J. Seymour (1870–1922), an African American preacher, preached that glossolalia (speaking in tongues) was evidence of Holy Spirit baptism; his first Los Angeles parish therefore expelled him. Seymour continued preaching until he and a small group experienced glossolalia. Crowds began to gather and a mission space was found on Azusa Street, in a run-down building in downtown Los Angeles. Worship there was frequent, spontaneous, and ecstatic, drawing people from around the world to a revival that lasted about three years and brought much attention to it. The Azusa revival was multi-racial, welcomed poor people, and encouraged the leadership of women, which was very controversial at the time. The revival drew many from the Holiness Movement, Baptists, Mennonites, Quakers, and Presbytarians as well as people from various other denominations. The location is part of Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, California.
"Speaking in tongues" in Christian traditions: Glossolalia
Topeka's role in Christianity:
Topeka is sometimes cited as the home of Pentecostalism as it was the site of Charles Fox Parham's Bethel Bible College, where glossolalia was first claimed as the evidence of a spiritual experience referred to as the baptism of the Holy Spirit in 1901.
America
Grapevine:
Places in the United States:
- The Grapevine: A steep portion of the Ridge Route linking the Los Angeles Basin with the San Joaquin Valley;
- Grapevine, California is a village at the base of The Grapevine on the Ridge Route.
- Grapevine, Texas.
Japan
Narita is the main international airport serving Tokyo. Narita International Airport at Wikipedia.
Roppongi is a district of Minato Ward, Tokyo, Japan, chiefly known for its nightlife and the presence of Western tourists and expatriates, although the vast majority of visitors are Japanese. (I recommend the Alcatraz Medical Prison Theme Bar, if you ever visit :-)
The Story
Overview
Scot Dombrowski, a Pentecostal businessman, starts a school for learning to speak in tongues for business negotiation purposes in China.
Detailed
Scot Dombrowski falls asleep whilst listening to the radio, and dreams that he is driving down the Seventh Loop Highway. The roadside billboards form a message for him - that he should start a Chinese business language school, 'taught by definitely not native Chinese speakers'...
(continue story here...)
