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Larry met his first wife , Helen DelGuidice, while at [[Wheaton College]], a zoology major, artist and later medical technician from Franklin Lakes, NJ, that he married in 1944, .  They divorced in 1987, then and Larry was remarried later that same year to a lady Naomi Stanley, from Washington StatePuyallup, WA, a graduate of Oregon State University and an authoressthe author of "Wagon Wheels and Wild Roses: Heirloom Recipes and Oregon Trail Stories from the McCaw family, 1847-1995", published in 1996 by Wild Rose Press. Larry had at least four children: Elizabeth, Ellen, John and James, and a step-son Steve.

He served as vice-president for research and development at the Weyerhaeuser Company, director of research of the National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program, a consultant in environmental and energy affairs, and owner of Teledyne Isotopes. He also served as a long-time director of Lamont Geological Observatory while at Columbia University. His primary field was radiometric dating, and a pioneer in the field of Carbon 14 dating, and established the second American research centre for Carbon 14 at Columbia University in 1950.

As he could play the trumpet very well, he was able to get in as a counselor, though he was a young atheist at the time, and it was at this camp that he made a profession of faith, and upon returning home to start his senior year of high school, he joined a camp friend's Bible church, which was a has been described as an "exclusive Plymouth Brethren assembly". <br /><br />He also spent two subsequent summers staffing at the camp, and his last year he was conductor of the 85-piece concert band. He spent several years with the Brethren, including presumably at Wheaton, Ohio State, and also at Princeton, which is where he continued activity with [[Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship]] which he was introduced to at Ohio State. It appears that after leaving Drew for Wheaton is unclear when he broke away from the Brethren, but during the summer internship with Allied in Buffalo, he was involved at the First Baptist Church. Later in life he identified as Presbyterian, but regarded himself as close to a secular humanist. ===The American Scientific Affiliation===In 1945, Kulp joined The American Scientific Affiliation, an association of evangelical scientists concepted by Irwin A. Moon (1907-1986), a science itinerant associated with [[Moody Bible Institute]] in Chicago, who in 1941 convinced Moody president William H. Houghton (1887-1947) to invite a number of scientists to Chicago, which included: * John P. Van Haitsma (1884-1965), a biologist from Calvin College* Peter W. Stoner (1888-1980), a Congregational mathematician from Pasadena City College* Irving A. Cowperthwaite (1904-1999), a Baptist industrial chemist from Boston* Russell D. Sturgis (1897-1969), a Baptist chemist from Ursinus College* F. Alton Everest (1909-2005), a Baptist electrical (radio & television) engineer on the faculty of Oregon State Collegein Corvallis, a co-founder with Irwin Moon of the Moody Institute of Science. Via the ASA, Culp was credited as one of the first American fundamentalists trained in geology, and it is claimed he did not continue on "contributed more than any other scientist to splitting conservative Protestants into self-consciously separate camps of "evangelicals" and "fundamentalists". Another Brethren who served in the ASA with Kulp was [[Russell L. Mixter]] who, along with J. Frank Cassel, helped lead the assembliesASA away from its anti-evolutionary stance.

While ===Young Life and Fuller influences===According to an interview in Buffalo for his summer training at Allied1985 as noted by George M. Marsden in "Reforming Fundamentalism", he was actively involved with in the First Baptist Churchearly 1950's, Dr. While at Ohio StateKulp assisted Jim Rayburn of [[Young Life]] in founding the Young Life Institute, in addition to whatever church he affiliatedColorado, he was involved with the local Inter Varsity club which included helping with local Sunday schoolsa summer school for training its leadership at a roughly seminary level.

During It was associations with Young Life where he was influenced to join the 1950's thru Board at Fuller Theological Seminary, from fellow Young Life board member C. Davis Weyerhaeuser, and Paul Jewett, a regular teacher at the early 1960'sYoung Life Institute, as well as a confidant to the Fuller family. Dr. Kulp served on the Board of Trustees of the [[rose to leadership at Fuller Theological Seminary]]seconded only to Weyerhaeuser, and according to Marsden. Kulp played a major prominent role , along with Weyerhaeuser, Billy Graham and others in getting Dave the election of long-time Fuller president David Hubbard elected to presidency. He eventually regarded himself as a secular humanist.

Kulp was living in 1987 in San Carlos, CA, then in San Mateo in 1990, then in the late 1990's in Titusville, NJ. He remained physically active throughoutlater in life, even playing regular tennis with younger people when he was 75. He died on September 25, 2006 at the age of 85, as the result of a logging accident at Whitaker Lake, in Speculator, NY, while living in Puyallup, Washington.Memorial services were at the Westside Presbyterian Church, Ridgewood, NJ, with requested donations to the J. Laurence Kulp Scholarship in Chemistry fund at Drew University, Madison, NJ. ==Also See==* [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/674898.Naomi_Stanley_Kulp "Wagon Wheels and Wild Roses: Heirloom Recipes and Oregon Trail Stories from the McCaw family, 1847-1995" review on Goodreads]* [https://www.bookdepository.com/J-Laurence-Kulp-Jordan-Naoum/9786136818542 2012 collection of Kulp's articles, edited by Jordan Naoum]