In spite of my initial skepticism, I’ve decided Google Docs can be very useful to a small church like ours.
This week, I’m doing lots of planning for the coming church year. And I decided to put our worship calendar on a Google Docs spreadsheet. I made this spreadsheet public, and made sure that all changes to the document are immediately published. Then I made our music director a “collaborator.” He went to the spreadsheet and entered the Sundays he will be off. Once we hire a new Director of Religious Education, I’ll make him/her a collaborator as well. Communication and collaboration among staff members is already easier.
Now that this our worship schedule is online, our church secretary will be no longer have to ask me each month for a paper copy of the most recent version of the schedule. The same is true for our worship associates (i.e., laypeople who do readings, etc., during the worship service) and other lay leaders. Everybody is now working from the same document, and all changes are immediately published.
Pretty cool, huh? (If you want to see what our worship schedule looks like, go here.)
“Ironical” is a word?
Tarzanus — From the OED, leaving out all their examples except the oldest one:
Ironical a. [f. as prec. + -AL.]
1. Of the nature of irony or covert sarcasm; meaning the opposite of what is expressed.
1536 FLEMING Panopl. Epist.237 note He was (belike) some Pomilio or litle dwarfe, and that made him to use this eironical method….
2. That uses or is addicted to irony.
b. transf. Mockingly imitative. Obs.
3. Dissembling; feigned, pretended. Obs. rare
So yes, it’s a word, going back nearly half a millennium. But, um, why do you ask? “Ironical” doesn’t appear in either this post or on the worship schedule.
Later note: turns out that Tarzanus was referring to the quote that appeared above the posts when this post appeared:
“The more I think about history, ancient or modern, the more ironical all human affairs seem.” Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome, trans. M. Grant.