His life was a whirlwind. His music was honest. His faith was wreckless.
'Ragamuffin’
is based on the life of Rich Mullins, a musical prodigy who rose to
Christian music fame and fortune only to walk away and live on a Navajo
reservation. An artistic genius, raised on a tree farm in Indiana by a
callous father, Rich wrestled all of his life with the brokenness and
crippling insecurity born of his childhood. A lover of Jesus and a rebel
in the church, Rich refused to let his struggles with his own darkness
tear him away from a God he was determined to love. As he struggled with
success in Nashville and depression in Wichita, Rich desired most of
all to live a life of honest and reckless faith amidst a culture of
religion and conformity.
Towards the end of his life he encountered a love deeper than he had ever known dying tragically in a car accident at age 41.
He
was a prophet and a poet and a beggar, more comfortable with the
homeless than the wealthy, more in love with Jesus than religion, more
interested in the music than the song. He felt too much, and held too
much. He searched desperately his whole life for a way to belong down
here, but he never did. He was just passing through.
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