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Death and legacy. 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.
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, 2017 · On Sept. 19, 1997, he was returning from a concert in his jeep when he lost control and ejected from the vehicle. He was then hit by a semi-trailer truck and died on the scene at age 41. Rich Mullins still has a regular impact on my life.
Oct 2, 2022 · The Christian singer-songwriter, who died at age 41 in a car crash, has a legacy that lives on.
“He was a poet and a prophet, and I’ve never met anyone like him before,” said James Bryan Smith, author of “Rich Mullins: An Arrow Pointing to Heaven,” a new Broadman & Holman book about the singer/songwriter who died Sept. 19, 1997, in a car crash.
Oct 10, 1997 · Wire stories identified the 41-year-old Mullins, who died in a car crash near Peoria on Sept. 19, as a contemporary Christian artist. Yet that label hardly tells the whole story.
Aug 7, 2024 · Rich Mullins, a best-selling contemporary Christian singer, was run over and killed by a tractor-trailer after being flipped out of a sports utility vehicle that went out of control.
Christian Artists Honor Rich Mullins 20 Years after His Death. Franklin, Tenn. (September 19, 2017) -- It was 20 years ago today that Christian music lost one of its greatest poets and prophets, Rich Mullins. For those that knew him, he often served as a “voice in the wilderness” calling us all to a greater love, a deeper compassion, and an ...
Sep 15, 2017 · On September 19, 1997, Rich Mullins died in a tragic car crash along Illinois Interstate 39, ending the life of one of the most compelling—and provocative—artists in Christian music history. He was one month shy of his forty-second birthday.
