00:00So like Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston and other legends of the world of pop music, Mariah Carey also is a evangelical Christian.
00:08Mariah did not opposition between her faith and her art.
00:12In other words, Mariah was the pop diva that best integrated the elements of Christian spirituality in the pop career.
00:18Next, Mariah tells her Christian faith.
00:22We used to attend church together at True Worship Church Worldwide Ministries, right across from the Louis Pinkhouse's projects in East New York.
00:29Tots and I were even re-baptized there together.
00:32At True Worship, I became a student of the Bible, doing a three-year intensive.
00:37We went through it from Old to New Testament, I took notes, and I took the healing words in.
00:42It was such an honor to solidify Bishop Keaton's legacy as a great spiritual teacher in my life and in the world by featuring him on two of my songs,
00:51I Wish You Well and Fly Like a Bird.
00:54Having a family in God brought me back to my life in the light.
00:58Pat couldn't understand.
01:00She left me a snide phone message on my Blackberry.
01:03What is this with you and your new friends and your new prayers?
01:07None of my biological family understood what it meant to care so much about God, but I had to.
01:13Returning to God was the only way I made it out of all my trips to hell.
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