According to one source, at an evangelistic meeting much later than her sixteenth year, in 1928, her sister "Myrtle and Kathryn preached to cover for [Myrtle's husband] Everette",Everette [having] missed a meeting in
Boise, Idaho. The pastor of the [host] church encouraged Kathryn to step out on her own. Helen [the Parrott ministry pianist] agreed to join her. Her [Kuhlman's] first sermon was in a run-down pool hall in Boise, Idaho[,] By 1970, she had moved to
Los Angeles, conducting services for thousands of people hoping to be healed, and was often compared to
Aimee Semple McPherson. 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.
Employee lawsuits In 1975, Kuhlman was sued by Paul Bartholomew, her personal administrator, who said 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. 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. According to Kuhlman, the lawsuit was settled prior to trial. In the 1970s, physician
William A. Nolen conducted a case study in Philadelphia of 23 people (following his 1967 medical fellowship), individuals who has said, during one of her services, that they had been cured of some malady. 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. 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. Richard Casdorph produced a book of evidence in support of miraculous healings by Kuhlman. Hendrik van der Breggen, a Christian philosophy professor, argued in favor of the claims. Author
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.". Kuhlman's
New York Times obituary noted that "Richard Owellen, a member of [a] cancer‐research department of the
Johns Hopkins Hospital who appeared frequently at Miss Kuhlman's services, testified to various healings that he said he had investigated". == Personal life ==