Asher Elbein paints a sympathetic portrait of Southern congregations that incorporate snake-handling into their worship rituals. “The point,” he writes, “is to have enough faith in God to take up something wild, untamed and unpredictable”: That unpredictability, however, is the root of the danger. However acclimated to humans a snake might be, it’s never truly […]
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