Kuhlman’s global ministry has been well-documented, but details of her early ministry, including her controversial marriage to a fellow evangelist and co-minister, Burroughs A. Waltrip, are now ...

MASON CITY | A local pastor is writing a book about the brief time Kathryn Kuhlman, who would later become a famous evangelist and purported faith healer, spent in Mason City in the 1930s. The Rev.

She was born Dec. 17, 1930, in Girard, the second child of James and Lucy Southerland Thorpe Sr. In September 1953, Ida and Thad Tharpe Jr. were joined in marriage by Kathryn Kuhlman, making their ...

Artman, religious studies instructor at Missouri State University, provides an engrossing portrait of Kathryn Kuhlman (1907–1976), a leading figure in charismatic Christianity and “miracle healing,” ...