Jacqueline L. Salmon reports in the Washington Post about the pastor of President Barack Obama’s private chapel at Camp David, a controversial critic of Islam and a successful proselytizer to American troops:
Carey Cash, the great-nephew of singer Johnny Cash and the younger brother of a former Miss America, sees the hand of God in every part of his journey: from the football fields where he once aspired to the NFL to the medical facilities where he learned he’d never play again; from the battered Humvee where he came under fire on the streets of Baghdad to the tiny chapel where he preaches to the country’s commander in chief in the Western Maryland mountains.
Although Cash was assigned to Camp David by the Navy, the president really likes the guy. Cash, Obama told religion reporters this summer, “delivers as powerful a sermon as I’ve heard in a while. I really think he’s excellent.”
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