Editor’s Note: Danny Cevallos, a CNN legal analyst, is a criminal defense attorney practicing in Philadelphia, New York and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The recent death of the “snake-handling” pastor of ...

Participants learnt about snake awareness, behaviour, biology, identification, myths, first aid for snakebite, scorpion sting ...

A snake-handling pastor who died Saturday in Middlesboro, Ky., once let his finger rot off after a previous snakebite - and he saved the rotten finger in a jar. The Rev. Jamie Coots, pastor since 1994 ...

Condemned Pentecostal practice lives long enough to get its own reality TV show. 1) The practice began in 1910 when an illiterate Tennessee preacher tried to literally apply Mark 16:18: "They will ...

RFK Jr. responded to social media concerns by sharing a video showing how he and wife Cheryl Hines carefully handled a ...

How should we respond to the news of the recent death of another snake-handling Christian? I can tell you a few ways that have been tried: condescension; amusement; disbelief; mockery; advocacy; and ...

Large snake handling gone wrong showing why big constrictors demand serious respect ...

What does it mean to have faith? Is it knowing that God has provided a sacrifice to atone for our sins, or is it believing that the bread and wine represent the body and blood of Christ? Is it a sense ...

Several Slate readers are skeptical of yesterday’s article comparing snake-related deaths with gun-related deaths. They singled out this line: “Having a gun in your home is far more dangerous than ...

Kennedy posted the two-minute and two-second video and captioned it, “In response to the many comments about venomous snakes, this video shows how Cheryl and I handled a recent rattlesnake rescue.” ...

Snake-handling is a tradition for the Coots family of Kentucky. But months after taking over for his father to lead a Pentecostal church, Cody Coots says he was bitten this week. His father, Jamie, ...