Jul 24, 2026
A sad, premature farewell: Bernie Mac 1969 – 2008
Richard Clark
Richard Clark is the Founding Editor of Christ and Pop Culture. He is also the managing editor of Gamechurch and a freelance writer for Unwinnable, Paste, and other outlets. He lives with his wife in Louisville, KY and has a MA in Theology and the Arts from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
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3 Comments
Dudes, it’s 1957-2008, not 1969.
I made a typo in my post and quickly corrected it. You guys were so fast in picking the story up from me, though, you missed the correction. My apologies.
Lesson learned: always fact check Overstreet. ;-)
My first thought, “Wow! He was born the same year I was… wait: that can’t be right – I thought he was 50 something – I’ll never be 50”.
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