Two weeks ago, NPR reported on a group of Pentecostals in Appalachia who handle snakes in church to prove their faith in God. The story got us thinking: Why are the handlers bitten so rarely, and why ...

The 1990s, Joe Martin said, "that was a bad decade." That's when four venomous snakes - three Western diamondback rattlesnakes and a lone coral snake - got their fangs into him. But that's to be ...

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 ...

Pastor Jamie Coots says his Pentecostal church is really not that different from other churches. "We sing, we preach, we testify, take up... Snake-Handling Preachers Open Up About 'Takin' Up Serpents' ...

"Selected by Peter Barberie to win the Center for Documentary Studies/ Honickman First Book Prize in Photography." Pentecostal serpent handlers, also known as Signs Followers, hold a literal ...