The story of fundamentalist Christians in the Appalachian hills who handle serpent as part of their religious services.

If God Was a Rattlesnake, Would You Pick it Up Lost in the Land of Faith, Hope and Venom Douglas Cruickshank YOU CAN NEVER EXHAUST THE POWER when the Spirit comes down, not even when you take up a snake, not even when you take up a dozen of them. The more faith you expend, the more power is released. It's an inexhaustible, eternally renewable resource. It's the only power some of these people ...

An exploration of the legislative, judicial, and executive aspects of the legality of religious snake handling.

Home Blurbs Snake Handling Snake Handling Statement The term snake handling refers to a practice in a few rural fundamentalist Christian churches in the United States. The purpose of the practice is to demonstrate the practitioners' adherence to certain Biblical signs, of which snake handling is one. A few leaders and parishioners pick up captive poisonous snakes from a container during ...

"Brood of Vipers, " that is what he called them. Not the most pastoral response, some would say. But then, whoever accused John the Baptist of being pastoral Or was he Might not John be consummately pastoral in this encounter