As Netflix Originals’ The Family tells it, the National Prayer Breakfast held annually in Washington, DC, is the brainchild of a decades-old organisation called The Family, which is really a cabal bent on destroying the constitutional separation of Church and state. And, declares Jeff Sharlet, author of the book from which the documentary series takes its name, it is dangerously Christian and conservative, with tentacles stretching all over the world.
And shouldn’t Sharlet know? He was drawn into a young men’s group that kept the grounds where The Family was unofficially run, a mansion called The Cedars, near DC. There the mysterious Doug Coe, The Family’s self-effacing head, spread the nefarious doctrine of preaching Jesus and bringing leaders of all political stripes together in love.
