Relying on a passage in the Bible that says “ they shall take up serpents,’ ’ ministers said they were using the snakes to show their faith in God. Many of the snake-handling churches were in ...

We’re right to be wary of the perils of thin community, like loss of meaning and, attachment to screens. But thick ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last August, during an evening service at the white frame Holiness Church of God in Jesus’ Name at Big Stone Gap, Va., Oscar Pelfrey. 65, stood before the congregation holding a pair of writhing ...

KINGSTON, Ga. -- The congregation was on its feet singing the old gospel favorite I Saw the Light when the Rev. Carl Porter put aside his Bible and reached behind the pulpit for the wooden snake box.

A snake-handling church was the target of a bizarre police raid 76 years ago in North Carolina, historians said. On Nov. 1, 1947, a venomous copperhead snake was seized from Zion Tabernacle Church in ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Two Mobile natives are producing a podcast on an unusual topic that’s gaining buzz online. The podcast, “Alabama Astronaut,” attempts to showcase the unique music found only in ...