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S10 Ep137: The Apostle (David E. Taylor)

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Society & Culture, Documentary, History, True Crime

4.610.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

A modern faith healer's scandal-plagued ministry faces accusations of forced labor and money laundering. 

Prelude: Kathryn Kuhlman's miracle healings are analyzed and imitated.

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0:00.0

This episode of Swindled may contain graphic descriptions or audio recordings of disturbing events which may not be suitable for all audiences.

0:10.0

Listener discretion is advised.

0:13.4

This little 11-year-old boy had rheumatoid arthritis affecting his hips and his knees and his ankles, wrists, and this is his wheelchair.

0:23.6

You mean this is a little boy's wheelchair? Yes.

0:26.6

Walk across the stage, honey. Walk across there.

0:31.6

Just a little, little, little. Does nothing hurt? Doesn't it hurt?

0:40.7

Doesn't it hurt?

0:41.5

You mean it doesn't hurt?

0:45.0

Okay, take your wheelchair.

0:46.7

You push it, honey.

0:48.2

Go on.

0:49.2

There he goes.

0:50.9

There he goes.

0:52.9

Don't thank me.

0:53.9

I didn't do it safe.

0:55.0

Catherine Coleman's ministry stood as a testament to resurrection,

1:00.0

not just in the spiritual sense she preached, but in the very arc of her own life.

1:06.0

In the 1930s, as a young rising evangelist,

1:10.0

Coleman married a fellow traveling preacher who had abandoned his wife and children.

1:15.6

The decision reverberated through the tight-knit Pentecostal community, which ostracized the newlyweds.

1:22.4

Almost overnight, the momentum Catherine Coleman had begun to build disintegrated,

1:27.3

and the ministry that

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