Photojournalist Lauren Pond was covering a worship service led by a snake-handling Pente­costal pastor when he was fatally bitten by a yellow timber rattlesnake in May. She had been photographing ...

who is considered the foremost expert on snake-handling Christians. The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Psychology of Religion professor, who has studied snake handlers for over 25 years, said ...

A pastor bitten by a snake while handling a serpent in a demonstration of faith is revaluating his life and belief after a close brush with death. Cody Coots, a pastor at Full Gospel Tabernacle in ...