Peter J. Boyer has an excellent piece in The New Yorker about DC’s notorious den of sex scandals and conservative politics, 133 C Street SE. Locals will be interested in how the place came to be the “Frat House for Jesus” for conservative congressmen.
After fundamentalist leader Douglas Coe helped wealthy Michael Timmis and his son reconcile, writes Boyer, the grateful Timmis bought the C Street townhouse for “Coe’s sons, David and Tim, and their friend Marty Sherman.”
“The Coe brothers and Sherman had been schoolmates at James Madison University, where they were part of a fraternity for believers, and tried to model themselves after the early Christians described in the Book of Acts. After graduating, they apprenticed with the Fellowship, and saw a chance to branch out when the house on C Street became available.