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Death and legacy. [edit] On September 19, 1997, Mullins and his friend Mitch McVicker were traveling southbound on I-39 north of Bloomington, Illinois, to a benefit concert at Wichita State University in Kansas, when they lost control of their Jeep.
Oct 27, 1997 · Contemporary Christian singer Rich Mullins, 41, was killed in a traffic accident September 19 near Lostant, Illinois, en route to a benefit concert in Wichita, Kansas, where he lived.
Dec 28, 2017 · Rich Mullins died in a car accident. He was 41. He’d been thrown from his Jeep and struck by a semi. He wasn’t wearing a seatbelt — typical Rich, as I’d learn later.
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He caused my head to hurt in the way that he pushed musically and lyrically beyond any artist I had ever been exposed to in my life. While he would have singable, simple choruses from time to time, I was most enthralled with the complexity he brought to his songs. The melody lines, chordal structures, rhythmic pulses, and eclectic instrumentation c...
No one was writing lyrics like he was, and 20 years later, that is still true. Rich hurt my head from the devastating lines he would put into his songs. Just look at these lines and marvel at what he was saying to the Church. Here are my top 10 lyrics from him (at least for today): 1. “There’s a wideness in God’s mercy I cannot find in my own, and ...
He was not your regular CCM artist. Greatly troubled and honest about his trials, he found great hope from The Ragamuffin Gospelby Brennen Manning. He took a vow of poverty in the spirit of St. Francis of Assisi. He eventually moved from Tennessee to live on a Navajo reservation in New Mexico. When asked if he moved there to convert the Native Amer...
Feb 13, 2023 · What drove Rich Mullins' work, and why is he still so iconic over 20 years after his death? He was one of the most important songwriters in 20th-century Christian music, and a maverick who walked away from Nashville's Christian music scene to teach music to Navajo children.
Sep 19, 2022 · Twenty-five years ago, singer-songwriter Rich Mullins lost his life in a car accident on his way to a benefit concert in Kansas. We remember him from hit songs like “Awesome God” and “Sing Your Praise to the Lord.”
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Sep 19, 2022 · In death, Mullins has been claimed as at least an “asymptotic Catholic,” though nobody can be sure if he would have made the leap across the Tiber. One of his Catholic friends once told me he was always peppering her with questions, because if he was going to convert, he wouldn’t do it by halves.
