Snake handlers dwell at the edge of the spiritual frontier — a community of people who are willing to die for their faith three times a week in church. Members of the Pentecostal Holiness Church take ...

When fundamentalist preacher Jamie Coots died after handling a snake during a church service four years ago, it led to a flurry of news reports about the circumstances surrounding his death and why he ...

If you’d told me before I traveled to the serpent-handling church in West Virginia that it wouldn’t be the snakes that made the biggest impression, I’d have said you were nuts. But it’s true. After ...