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R.T. Mullins

Ryan Mullins (July 26th, 1983 to present) is currently a student at Atlanta Christian College. Mullins has been a student at Atlanta Christian College from 2004 to the present. He is working on a dual major in Humanities and Biblical Studies with a minor in Philosophy. Mullins is a youth minister at Northside Christian Church in Columbus, GA.

Education

During Mullins’ teenage years he attended Brownsburg Jr. High in Brownsburg, IN. Eventually his parents, Tom and Jan Mullins, sent Ryan to Covenant Christian High School due to Ryan’s poor academic standing. There Mullins developed an understanding of the Christian Worldview and was able to turn his life from an ignorant teenager into an enlightened individual.

Following High School, Mullins had a desire to study film with the hopes of one day making horror movies. This, however, was not to be. He went to the University of Indianapolis in 2002 to study Communications. While there Ryan learned the art of Television News, and quickly grew bored of his studies. He grew to hate the school and everything related to Communications. He also had several contentions with the Theology and Philosophy of the school, but stayed there to continue his education.

Mullins eventually changed his major to English Education after a year of studying Communications. He stuck with this major for a semester, but eventually came to despise the University of Indianapolis and sought to go elsewhere. Mullins also came to the conclusion that he could only teach Theology and the Bible and thus desired to go to a Christian College. In the mean time he went to IUPUI for a semester while he looked for a school.

Eventually he came to Atlanta Christian College. The first time that Mullins saw the school was during the summer of 2003 when his grandfather, John Mullins, died and the funeral was held at the school’s campus. In 2004 he asked several of his family member who had previously attended the school if it was worthwhile and applied. He was quickly accepted and moved down to Atlanta where he presently resides.

Music

During Ryan’s early teenage years, he learned to play guitar and desired to join a band. This dream went on for many years and finally came to fruition in February 2004 when he joined an unknown emo band called To Die Alone. Upon joining the band lost their second guitarist. This left the band with a show in two weeks and no songs. Ryan quickly wrote several black metal/hardcore songs and the band found a new guitarist just in time for the show. The band made a small following in Indianapolis and eventually released a six song demo. They even played one show with the somewhat well known hardcore band Figure Four. Shortly after the release of the demo Ryan left the band to go to school in Atlanta, Georgia.

Apart form Mullins’ brief moment in the lime light, he enjoyed the hardcore music scene. He went to shows all over Indiana and the surrounding states, but in more recent times has withdrawn from the scene. He grew tired of the pseudo-politics of the hardcore scene and the false claim of open-mindedness that scene promotes.