(RNS) — When Andrew Hamblin walks into church to preach on a Sunday morning, he brings along death in a box. If the Holy Spirit moves him during the service, he will open the box’s hinged ...

Andrew Hamblin, 21, pastor of Tabernacle Church of God in La Follette, Tenn., holds up two rattlesnakes during church service. For more than a 100 years, small Pentecostal churches in East ...