MAR student: "I guess white is appropriate for today" (wine, that is)
MDiv student: "Is that a colonizer joke?"
Overheard: Thanksgiving Dinner
Friday, November 27, 2009
Awww! I love inclusivity
MAR Student: "Hurry up! We can't pray without the atheist."
Overheard: Thanksgiving Dinner
Overheard: Thanksgiving Dinner
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Mike G, take note. Our safety is in your hands.
YDS Alumnus: "Can you kill those things?"
MAR Student: "No, not yet. I don't have the right jelly beans."
Related:
MAR Student: "No, not yet. I don't have the right jelly beans."
Related:
Monday, November 23, 2009
I love you, whoever you are.
Student 1: "You're all talking about burning heretics, when all of us would probably be the ones being burned under these laws."
Student 2: "No, no, no. It all depends who's in power. If you're in power you get to burn everyone who disagrees. Orthodoxy is the heresy that wins"
Overheard: Refectory
Student 2: "No, no, no. It all depends who's in power. If you're in power you get to burn everyone who disagrees. Orthodoxy is the heresy that wins"
Overheard: Refectory
I don't know. Was it a mitre, tiara, crown of thorns, skullcap, or beret?
Student: "The guy in the funny hat is Jesus, right?"
(looking at a slideshow of artist's representation of the resurrection of Jesus)
Overheard: Introduction to the New Testament
(looking at a slideshow of artist's representation of the resurrection of Jesus)
Overheard: Introduction to the New Testament
Friday, November 20, 2009
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Think of it as passing the peace
During Hearty Eucharist:
Student: "I keep wondering if it's inappropriate to say 'cheers' with the blood of Christ."
Overheard: Marquand
Student: "I keep wondering if it's inappropriate to say 'cheers' with the blood of Christ."
Overheard: Marquand
Take these baby carrots, they are my fingers, given for thee
Student1: "So, what does this 'Hearty Eucharist' consist of?"
Student2: "What you're really asking is, 'what's in this body of Christ, so I can decide whether I wish to partake?'"...
Student2: Take this hummus. It is my nervous system, given for thee.
Overheard in: Commuter Lounge, just before "Hearty Eucharist."
Student2: "What you're really asking is, 'what's in this body of Christ, so I can decide whether I wish to partake?'"...
Student2: Take this hummus. It is my nervous system, given for thee.
Overheard in: Commuter Lounge, just before "Hearty Eucharist."
Monday, November 16, 2009
Good thing these submissions are anonymous
MAR student: "Why didn't the Jesuits use the idea of purgatory with the Indians?"
MDiv 1: "Well, to enter purgatory you have to be baptized at birth."
MDiv 2: "So what about the good souls who weren't baptized?"
MDiv 1: "If you weren't baptized you went to Dante's outermost level of hell. Which isn't bad, but it's not great. It's kinda like Jersey."
Overheard: Transitional Moments of Western Christian History Section
MDiv 1: "Well, to enter purgatory you have to be baptized at birth."
MDiv 2: "So what about the good souls who weren't baptized?"
MDiv 1: "If you weren't baptized you went to Dante's outermost level of hell. Which isn't bad, but it's not great. It's kinda like Jersey."
Overheard: Transitional Moments of Western Christian History Section
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Who says I don't?
Denys Turner: "The Song of Songs is about GREAT sex. You just all wish you could have sex that good."
Overheard: History of Biblical Interpretation
Overheard: History of Biblical Interpretation
Is that of the Far or Near Universe?
Prof. David Eastman: "Wait... quick what is that cartoon where all the little robots make the big robot? Yeah... The Trinity is not Voltron."
(Regarding Augustine's interpretation of the Trinity)
Overheard: Patristics
(Regarding Augustine's interpretation of the Trinity)
Overheard: Patristics
Only if the Holy Spirit is the wind beneath my wings
MDiv student: "Don't you think that Bette* Midler is a Psalmist of our time?"
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Some day you just might
Student: "You should see the things they have in the shape of a penis!"
Overheard: Coffee Shop
Overheard: Coffee Shop
Friday, November 6, 2009
Prevening Ministerial Misconduct has many layers of benefits
MDiv student: "Show me what good touch is!"
Sunday, November 1, 2009
It's all from Adam's rib, of course
MAR student speaking to a costume party attendee: " I want to know: From what did you construct your breasts?"
Overheard: Saints and Sinners
Overheard: Saints and Sinners
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