by Dennis Covington
What was originally intended to be a meditation on the trial of a Holiness pastor, Glenn Summerford, who was convicted of using snakes to kill his wife morphed into a rather bizarre memoir that follows the spiritual development (?) or devolution of an erstwhile Methodist to snake-handling Holiness ...
An intense true story about a journalist who researched snake-handling Christians in the North Georgia mountains and got so swept up in their charismatic movement that he joined them for a time. Reminds you that at its core religion is not an intellectual process, but an emotional one. Religion is...
I love a book about odd religious beliefs, so a group that practices snake-handling is right up my alley. Covington does a great job, taking time to get to know the people he writes about, taking the time to really understand them. I'm not going to join, but I did finish feeling as though I'd lear...
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