Kathryn Kuhlman

==Ministry==
Kuhlman traveled extensively around the United States and abroad holding healing meetings between the 1940s and 1970s. She was considered to be one of the most well-known faith healers in the world, however, the term "faith healer" was something she rejected as offensive.{{cn|date=March 2024}} In 1955, in her late 40s, despite being told by doctors about a heart condition, Kuhlman kept a very busy schedule, often traveling across the US and abroad, holding two to six-hour long meetings which could last late into the evenings.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wacker |first=Grant |title=Female Evangelical Leaders Have a Hidden Predecessor to Thank |url=https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/october/kathryn-kuhlman-female-evangelicals-hidden-predecessor.html |access-date=2023-04-10 |website=ChristianityToday.com |language=en}}</ref>

Kuhlman had a weekly [[TV program]] in the 1960s and 1970s called ''<nowiki/>'I Believe In Miracles''' that was aired nationally. She also had a 30-minute nationwide radio program, which featured sermons and, frequently, excerpts from her healing services (in music and message). Her foundation was established in 1954, and its [[Canada|Canadian]] branch in 1970. Late in her life she was supportive of the nascent [[Jesus movement]].<ref name="Believers' Portal">[https://believersportal.com/biography-kathryn-kuhlman/ ''Believers' Portal'']</ref>

By 1970 she had moved to [[Los Angeles]], conducting healing services for thousands of people, and was often compared to [[Aimee Semple McPherson]].<ref name="Kuhlman1970">{{cite news|url=http://www.newspaperarchive.com/newspapers1/na0021/6793856/47241589_clean.html|title=Aimee Macpherson has a Dazzling Successor|date=July 4, 1970|access-date=2007-11-12|publisher=[[Pasadena Star-News]]}}</ref> She became well known for her "gift of healing" despite, as she often noted, having no [[Theology|theological training]].<ref name="Kuhlman1970"/>{{Dead link|date=March 2018}}  She was friendly with Christian television evangelist [[Pat Robertson]] and made guest appearances at his [[Christian Broadcasting Network]] (CBN) and on the network's flagship program ''[[The 700 Club]]''.

In 1975, Kuhlman was sued by Paul Bartholomew, her personal administrator. He claimed that she kept $1 million in jewelry and $1 million in fine art hidden away and sued her for $430,500 for breach of contract.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/120169428.html?dids=120169428:120169428&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=JUL+18%2C+1975&author=&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=Evangelist+Sued+By+a+Former+Aide&pqatl=google | title=Evangelist Sued By a Former Aide | newspaper=[[Washington Post]] | date=July 18, 1975 | access-date=2007-11-12 }}{{Dead link|date=April 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/662183362.html?dids=662183362:662183362&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Jul+03%2C+1975&author=RUSSELL+CHANDLER&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Ex-Aides+Sue+Kathryn+Kuhlman&pqatl=google | title=Ex-Aides Sue Kathryn Kuhlman | work=[[Los Angeles Times]] | date=July 3, 1975 | first=Russell | last=Chandler | access-date=2007-11-12 }}{{Dead link|date=April 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Two former associates accused her in the lawsuit of diverting funds and of illegally removing records, which she denied and said the records were not private.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wOgNAAAAIBAJ&pg=5546,2534488&dq=kathryn+kuhlman | title=Kathryn Kuhlman Sued By Former Associates | publisher=[[St. Petersburg Times]] |date=July 12, 1975 | access-date =2007-11-12}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> According to Kuhlman, the lawsuit was settled prior to trial.<ref name="Pittsburgh1975"/>

Kuhlman's devotion to her ministry was summed up in the 1976 biography ''Daughter of Destiny'', written by Jamie Buckingham:<blockquote>"The television ministry itself required more than $30,000 a week. To stop, to even cut back, would mean she was beginning to fail. The same was true with the miracle services. As the pain in her chest grew almost unbearable, instead of holding fewer services, she increased the number."</blockquote>

=== Healing ===
An estimated two million people reported that they were healed in her meetings over the years.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/religion/famed-preacher-kathryn-kuhlman-died-here-years-ago/article_a09b9f6a-7b37-5184-91cb-9e85c36e5deb.html|title=Famed preacher Kathryn Kuhlman died here 40 years ago|last=SHERMAN|first=BILL|date=Feb 20, 2016|work=Tulsa World|access-date=2018-03-16|language=en}}</ref>

Following a 1967 fellowship in [[Philadelphia]], [[William A. Nolen|Dr. William A. Nolen]] conducted a case study of 23 people who said they had been cured during one of her services.<ref name="NoHealing">{{cite news |url=http://www.newspaperarchive.com/newspapers1/na0030/5967824/21003862_clean.html | title=Psychic Healing? Investigator declares no | publisher=[[The Greenville News]] |date=August 16, 1975 | access-date =2007-11-12}} Also see: William Nolen, ''Healing: a doctor in search of a miracle''. New York: Random House {{ISBN|0-394-49095-9}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.newspaperarchive.com/newspapers1/na0022/6795006/48320964_clean.html | title=Dr Nolen Looks at Faith Healing | publisher=[[The San Mateo Times]] |date=March 7, 1975 | access-date =2007-11-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/02/02/archives/men-of-medicine-and-a-medicine-man.html  | title=Men of medicine and a medicine man | work=[[The New York Times]] |date=February 2, 1975 | first=Michael | last=Michaelson   | access-date =2007-11-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,913003,00.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114084338/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,913003,00.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=January 14, 2009 | title=Extra-Dispensary Perceptions | publisher=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=March 17, 1975 | access-date =2007-11-12}}</ref> Nolen's long term follow-ups concluded that there were no cures in those cases. One woman who was said to have been cured of spinal cancer threw away her brace and ran across the stage at Kuhlman's command; her spine collapsed the next day and she died four months later.<ref name="Pittsburgh1975">{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cOQNAAAAIBAJ&pg=5291,834959&dq=kathryn+kuhlman+william+nolen|title=Inside Religion: Kuhlman Tested By MD's Probe|last=Lester|first=Kinsolving|date=November 8, 1975|access-date=2007-11-12|publisher=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]}}</ref><ref name="Kuhlman">{{cite book| last = Randi | first = James | author-link = James Randi | year = 1989 | title = [[The Faith Healers]] | publisher = Prometheus Books | id =  228| isbn = 0-87975-535-0 }}</ref>

Nolen's analysis of Kulhman came in for criticism from believers. Lawrence Althouse, a physician, said that Nolen had attended only one of  Kuhlman's services and did not follow up with all of those who said they had been healed there.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Rediscovering the Gift of Healing. Nashville: Abingdon|last = Althaus|first = Lawrence|year = 1977|pages = 59}}</ref> Dr. Richard Casdorph produced a book of evidence in support of miraculous healings by Kuhlman.<ref>{{Cite book|title = The Miracles: A Medical Doctor Says Yes to Miracles!|last = Casdorph|first = Richard|year = 1976|pages = 169}}</ref> Hendrik van der Breggen, a Christian philosophy professor, argued in favor of the claims.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Miracle Reports, Moral Philosophy, and Contemporary Science.|last = Hendrik van der|first = Breggen|year = 2004|pages = 382}}</ref> Author [[Craig S. Keener|Craig Keener]] concluded, "No one claims that everyone was healed, but it is also difficult to dispute that significant recoveries occurred, apparently in conjunction with prayer. One may associate these with Kathryn Kuhlman's faith or that of the supplicants, or, as in some of Kuhlman's teaching, to no one's faith at all; but the evidence suggests that some people were healed, even in extraordinary ways.".<ref>{{Cite book|title = Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts|last = Keener|first = Craig|year = 2011|pages = 614 (ebook format)}}</ref>

Dr. Richard Owellen, a member of the cancer‐research department of the [[Johns Hopkins Hospital]] who appeared frequently at Kuhlman's services, testified to various healings that he said he had investigated.<ref>Kathryn Kuhlman, Evangelist And Faith Healer, Dies in Tulsa, ''New York Times'', Feb. 22, 1976.</ref>
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