It’s one thing to say God will protect you from a rattlesnake, but it’s quite another to actually put your faith where its fangs are. That’s what a Thomasville preacher did 90 years ago, and the ...

Pentacostal pastor Jamie Coots, the snake-handling preacher who stars in National Geographic’s Snake Salvation, died from a snakebite in a church service Saturday as he was practicing a ...

Coots handling the snake [Photo: Courtesy] The pastor whose church is inspired by the biblical verse Mark 16:18 which reads, ‘They will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison ...