The Wichita Eagle is always quoting cousin the Rev. Dr. Barrister Chatsie (pictured above in 1987), and not just on religious topics. In this front-page story, she got to weigh in on daylight-savings time. We like how smoothly she handled the hard-hitting reporter:
Is it a sin to be late?
Changing your own body clock might take a little more effort.
The Rev. Cathy Northrup of the First Presbyterian Church in downtown Wichita knows all too well the confusion that comes with the time change.
"I've had people come in, think they are coming early and arrive in time for the benediction," she said. "You can see their confusion. Then, they get it and their faces turn beet red. They come up at the end of the service like they have come to confess a sin. I tell them it is just a mistake, not a sin."
Her congregation will adjust more easily than the church's computer. The calendar is programmed to change in April. Until then, times in the newsletter will be off by an hour, she said.
"We are leaving it that way until the end of March. I think we can handle it," she said.
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