![]() ![]() “It will affect our religious life, our professional life and our family life,” said Rabbi Abba Cohen, vice president for government affairs for Agudath Israel of America, to Religion News Service. Jews argue that such a policy change - which would lead to later sunsets across much of the country - would disrupt their religious practices and complicate their relationship with their employers. That timing is notable in light of the Senate’s passage last month of a bill that would make daylight saving time permanent. Describing the history of anabaptists or eastern rite churches was hard enough that we almost wondered if it was worth the trouble. We eventually shared it with Paula Froke, the AP Stylebook expert, who helped usher us on further and got the document into the Stylebook format.ĭavid: Some of the relatively secondary entries were extremely complicated. We just kept adding comments and considerations onto the master document. Then, we flipped the document to a couple staffers. Once those were all in, David and I went through each one. I just started copying over the religion chapter as it existed and added those comments, noting where they wanted to add a new entry. ANOTHER WORD FOR ADDING TO SOMETHING HOW TOHolly: I’ve never done anything like this before, so I had to figure out even simple things like what format to work in and how to get all of the input from our experts into one place so we could go in and make determinations. We were creating guidance and some rules to help journalists who likely are not religion experts.ĭavid: It was about three months at least of hard work for us, and a lot of that time was spent going into the weeds on certain issues. We had to remember we weren’t writing for religion scholars. Holly: A lot of the decisions we were making involved how detailed we needed to be. We didn’t want to ruffle feathers by making it appear that the AP has decided the date is officially this or that. A lot of our hard work involved writing something that would be suitable for people who had different dates in mind. We had to learn the fine art of fudging because we didn’t want to pick one version over another. We found that if you try to briefly summarize the origins or history of a denomination, you’ll sometimes run into conflicting details. We tried to be gentle and find the right balance. ![]() For example, the Christian Scientists have their own way of phrasing their attitude toward medical care that might be a little bit different from the way journalists would describe it. ![]() David: There were a couple of examples like that where we had to try to decide how much to echo a denomination’s self-image. ![]()
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