Andrew Hamblin handles poisonous snakes every Sunday in the name of Jesus. At just 22, he leads Tabernacle Church of God in LaFollette, Tenn., a Pentecostal church that practices a rare, century-old ...
There was a lot of nervous laughter in the room. Some of it was mine. I was leading a church discussion on religious practices in Appalachia. The topic of the night was snake handling. The multitudes ...
For three Tuesday nights in January, the public is invited to hear three professors from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga speak about Christian Roots: Snake Handling, Environmentalism and ...
A Kentucky pastor who starred in a reality TV show about snake-handling has died after being bitten by a poisonous snake. Pentecostal pastor Jamie Coots, a third-generation “serpent handler,” believed ...
NASHVILLE (Reuters) - A Kentucky snake-handling preacher who appeared in a television show about the religious practice died of a snakebite after refusing medical treatment, authorities said on Sunday ...
Abe Partridge’s very first visit to a serpent-handling church exposed him to something that changed his outlook entirely. And it wasn’t the snakes. It was the music. Unknown songs, wrapped up in a ...
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