When Faith & Football Teamed Up Against American Democracy

The shriek of a whistle sounded an end and a beginning. On an October night in 2015, reporters, curious out-of-towners and even satanists assembled at, of all places, a high school football game in suburban Washington state. They were all stoked for an impending collision, the crescendo of a fight that, over just six weeks, had ballooned into a spectacle.