Dolla dolla bills?

(using different dry-erase markers to illustrate a point)

Christopher Beeley: "Let's make the divinity green."
YECC* member: "I always knew it."







(Yale Earth Care Committee - YDS's own Eden brigade)

Pish. I'm on Friendster.

Christopher Beeley: "Well, how does popular culture answer this question?"
(silence)
2nd year: "We're probably the wrong people to ask about popular culture."

Overheard in: Anglican I

Maybe your office smells nice. Like incense. I don't know. Maybe it's an Episcoposse secret. Y'all are high church and whatnot.

Student: "Are you extending office hours to talk about the paper?"
Christopher Beeley: "I'm extending office hours because I can.  I have no idea why people want to talk to me."

Overheard: Anglican I

We're very hardcore here

Christopher Beeley:  "All these people run around in church saying, 'Aren't we nice?'  NO!  You're all bastards."
Student: "That's pastoral"

Overheard in: Anglican Theology I

Makes as much sense as a theology class.

Christopher Beeley: "You don't read like you watch television.  Unless you need to watch television, in which case, you read vampire novels."

Overheard: Anglican Theology I

Beeley on fire

Christopher Beeley: [After a discussion of Feuerbach] We are all soooo fabulous.

Beeley: Kenotic christology is Very. Seductive.

Student: It's like you're a hair shirt for her.
Beeley: I've heard that one before.

Beeley: He [William Temple] died in 1944 and I have a special revelation from him; so you see, the Gnostics were underrated.

Overheard: Anglican History and Theology

My hand barely survived

(On the patristics examination)
Student: Well, we survived. And I'm sure he will take that into account.


Overheard in the Commuter Lounge

I was in class and I'm not even sure I can pronounce those words

Christopher Beeley: Not all monophysites were aphthartodocetists.

Overheard: Patristics

No burritos?

(On Origin's exegesis)
Christopher Beeley: God conceals higher meanings from those who won't understand... You don't give refried beans to that baby!

Overheard: Patristics