WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Jamie Coots, from Kentucky in the US, was convinced serpents wouldn’t harm believers as long as ...

Jamie Coots, from Kentucky in the US, was a snake-handling pastor who believed that the serpents wouldn't hurt him ...

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Jamie Coots, 42, was a pastor in Kentucky and starred in National Geographic's "Snake Salvation" ...

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

A snake-handling pastor who praised the serpents on reality TV died after a bite from a rattlesnake - and refusing treatment.

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 ...

High in the mountains of West Virginia lies McDowell County. Formerly a hotspot for American coal mining, technological advancements and outsourced labour crept through Appalachia in the mid-twentieth ...

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In southern West Virginia Pastor Mack Wolford leads one of the few remaining snake handling churches in the United States His family is deeply tied to the faith Mack was a child when he lost his ...

Jim Varallo would like to get to Calvary Cemetery on Lebanon Pike in Nashville more than once or twice a year to visit family members who are buried there. The idea is leading Varallo, a parishioner ...