Rich Mullins
I didn’t know this about Rich Mullins. Did you?
He was said to be flaky, and maybe that’s because he simply wasn’t tied down. In his entire career he never knew the extent of his earnings. His quarterly checks from record labels were sent to the board of elders at his small home church. He asked them to pay him the median salary of a typical US worker, about $24,600 annually. The rest was given away to missions and charitable organizations or put into his retirement. Rich said, “If I knew how much I made it might make giving the rest away all that much harder.”
If you love his music (like I do!), I encourage you to read the entire article:
And if you’re such a youngin’ that you don’t yet know his music–he died very young–I encourage you to get to know him. I love all of his albums, but A Liturgy, A Legacy & A Ragamuffin Band is a favorite.