Note: The following piece is an excerpt from an article that originally appeared in Relevant Magazine.

On April 16, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. sat quietly in a Birmingham City Jail cell. He had been arrested during a non-violent protest against the racial segregation of downtown retailers organized by the Alabama Christian Movement for Human...

I will never forget the way I felt while watching a Fox News snippet of Pat Robertson calling for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on the Christian Broadcast Network's The 700 Club. "We have the ability to take [Chavez] out," Robertson told his nearly ancient viewership with a scowling contortion. "And I think the time has...