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MrJim

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Thanks Grace
 
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This is true. However, from what I've read, he was in the process of converting to Catholcism at the time of his death. He was attending RCIA, and was only weeks from being received into the Catholic church.

-Grace

I used to know his mom and siblings, and his sister and mother told me it was all just a rumor, but no truth to it.

He had looked into converting because of the way Catholicism honors people who choose to remain single for the cause of Christ, but could not reconcile what he believed about salvation through faith alone and the teachings of the Catholic church.

He also kept detailed diaries of his spiritual life and never mentioned the idea in his last journals or in the previous several years.

And the church where it all was supposed to have happened denies that Rich had approached them about converting, and that the parish priest who was supposed to have authored the article was never on staff there or at any church in the Wichita area. Rich didn't even live in Wichita at the time of his death, so whoever wrote the article didn't know him very well, as he had moved to Arizona two years before hand.

So, his family denies it, his own diaries deny it, and the church where it was supposed to happen denies it.

It's just a persistent rumor, part of the mythoology of Rich Mullins.
 
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I read--I think on the wiki article-that he was raised Quaker. When you knew his family were they still practicing Quakers?
 
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I read--I think on the wiki article-that he was raised Quaker. When you knew his family were they still practicing Quakers?

No, they left the Quakers when the first set of kids were still little. They were long time members of a Restoration Christian church by the time I knew them.
 
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Hi Ashes,

Thanks for clearing that up.

-Grace
 
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Menno,

A friend of mine who ministers in different denominations used to always take this as her approach:

"Eat the meat, and spit out the bones."

-Grace

Amen to that.

One of the best presentations of the Gospel that I ever heard was from a Catholic priest at my grandmother's funeral. It was all meat, no bones at all.
 
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Menno,

A friend of mine who ministers in different denominations used to always take this as her approach:

"Eat the meat, and spit out the bones."

-Grace

And have the wisdom to know the difference!
 
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