God Help Us...
I had planned on working on my weekly sermon some yesterday afternoon, but got sucked into the news watching the train wreck unfolding in Washington. Even this morning eighteen hours later, I find that I cannot put mental energy into a sermon without first putting together some comments about yesterday. On January 6, congress meets to count the electoral votes in an action that is largely ceremonial. Any idea that congress is a final arbiter of presidential elections is misguided. Every four years they meet on January 6, count the electoral votes, and nobody even knows or notices. That congressional proceedings from yesterday were even being shown on every cable news network is a sign that things are "going off the rails" so to speak. Technically we live in a republic rather than a democracy, meaning that we elect people who will form a government and represent us in said government. Our practices for how that works are spelled out partially in our constitution, partia