Yesterday I had a conversation where I was obliged to bring up the name “Kathryn Kuhlman.” Kathryn Kuhlman! I hadn’t thought of her name in years and years and doubt I ever would have again, if it weren’t for this conversation. Kathryn Kuhlman was born in 1907 and became a Pentecostal evangelical preacher at the age of 16. She made a lucrative career for herself as a faith healer running “crusades” for Jesus from the 1940s to the late 1960s across the globe and at her 2000 seat Kuhlman Revival Tabernacle in Pittsburgh. For a while a scandal having to do with her husband sullied her reputation and she had to rebuild her career. Eventually she got her own TV show, which is when I became aware of her as a small child in the 70s. If I woke up early on Sundays, I had to sit through her show before the cartoons came on. I thought she seemed really strange then and looking at video of her today, yep, I was right, she was really strange.
Benny Hinn copped all her moves—he wrote a book about her—even the way he moves his mouth sometimes.