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 ...

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 ...

Sand Mountain is a haunted house of a place. In his book Salvation on Sand Mountain, Dennis Covington describes a snake-handling church where members speak in tongues, drink strychnine and curse ...