Applied Pastoral Reformed Theology

Every year, twice a year, the American public willingly participates in one of the oldest and most pointless civic rituals in the modern world. We do not question it. We do not protest it. We simply stumble to the nearest clock (or more accurately, we watch our phone do it automatically) and we accept the new reality as handed down from whatever committee of sleep-deprived bureaucrats has decided, once again, that time itself needs editing. I have done this my entire life. I have lost sleep over it, literally, and also metaphorically. Once I learned the actual history of Daylight Saving Time, I lost a little more of whatever innocent trust in institutions I had left. Which, at this point, wasn't much. So let's talk about it. Let's talk about the greatest temporal heist in human history, why the people who invented it were either at war or wanted to play more golf, what it is genuinely doing to your body on a cellular level, and what you can actually do about it. Short of moving to Arizona, which, while