Rich Mullins: Tell the Joke

A few weeks after Rich Mullins died in a car accident in 1997 at age forty-one, his friend and financial manager, Jim Dunning, went to collect Rich’s possessions. Mullins was a wildly successful Christian musician famous for the songs “Awesome God,” “Step by Step,” and many other hits. 

His popularity could have afforded him a luxurious lifestyle. But when Dunning retrieved Rich’s things, they didn’t fill up half of a twenty-foot moving truck. “I have clients who made less than Rich, who have seven-thousand-square-foot…