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Not all the nonsense spoken by the Archbishop of Canterbury is a product of his flawed earthly will; at least one variety, which tends to emerge at a rather ungodly hour of the morning, is barely related to his language centres at all. The practice of glossolalia is supposedly a gift of prophecy and a sign of divine favour generally accompanied by the ability to cast out demons, heal the sick by laying-on of hands, pick up snakes and drink poison with impunity; which doubtless explains why the CEO of the Church of England regards it as "not something to make a great song and dance about" and "not usually an immensely ecstatic moment". Nevertheless, two stalwarts of Britain's leading liberal newspaper, where facts are sacred, have just about managed between them to copy and paste part of a New York Times report of a 2006 neuroscientific study. The authors claimed that their research supported evangelical claims of possession, on the dubious grounds that the brains of people engaged in glossolalia showed relative inactivity in the frontal lobes, which are associated with volition and self-control. It is certainly natural enough that the Creator, in ensuring that we come to Him of our own free will, would wish to bypass the means by which we exercise choice.