And just as delish

Student discussing Cyril of Alexandria: We got a man-god on our hands... Like peanut butter and jelly in one jar.

Overheard: Patristics section

Heck yeah it has!

(singing outside classroom door)
(silence)
Gene Outka: It's Friday and the frivolousness has started already!

ˈbī-bəl, actually

Susan Olson: What are you putting out signs for? I don't understand your sign.
Joel Baden: What word don't you understand? Is it this one: bee-ble? Bib-lee?

Overheard: Outside Dale Peterson's office

With fabric softner!

Mark Miller: Do that thing, I don't know what it's called but you get real soft.

Overheard: Gospel Choir

Dale Peterson is more like the good witch!

(Dale Peterson walks in room)
Student 1: If Dale Peterson had a theme song, what would it be?
(pause)
Student 2: [sings flying monkey song from Wizard of Oz]
Student 1: [speechless]



... to the candy bowl.

"And then a whale jumped over me and I touched its belly!"

(listening to Will You Be There, the Free Willy theme song)



Student: This is my liberation theology of a six year old!

Beeley would be proud

MAR Student 1: Why do you have two name tags?

MDiv Student 1: I'm consubstantial.

Overheard: Patristics Section

Black bean or hummus? So hard.

(staring at tray of free, leftover wraps)
Student 1: Man, this is tough... Why did there have to be three choices?
Student 2: The point of this place is to challenge you.

Or Gene Simmons of the Bible

John Collins: King Solomon bedded 1100 women... he's like the Magic Johnson of the Bible.

Overheard: Chapel

TMI, personally

Student 1: What are you exegeting in Leviticus?
Second Career Student: Sex!
Student 2: Why are you doing that?
Second Career Student: Well, it's probably the closest I'm going to get!

Overheard: Section

I won't... don't worry

1st Year MAR: I won’t be home between class and church tonight, so feel free to have me not there.

A world of pasta but no tomatoes

Student 1: Why do you have so little sauce on your noodles?
Student 2: It's a feat of endurance to see how little sauce I can use... I'm the David Blaine of pasta.

If it's like 2000, you could be in there for awhile

Student: I'm going to the library until the election's over.

Overheard: Refectory

Ugh indeed

Student 1: Ugh, I have to be here till 5.
Student 2: Aw, what for?
Student 1: Stupid Jesus.

But what about the not-awesome? Screw 'em!

Student: I have a preferential option for the awesome.

Overheard: Commuter Lounge

But there is a guest worker program! From where? Purgatory?

Student: I bet there are no illegal workers in heaven.

Overheard: Common Room

It's me... I just wanted to see you get confused

Student: What's that noise? Is that you? (pause) Oooh, that's me! Someone's trying to gChat with me!

Plus you'd have a sweet knight suit

Student: If I could have any job in the world, it would be the knight guarding the Holy Grail. 1: You'd be guarding the Holy Grail. 2: You'd be guarding the Holy Grail with a sword. 3: You'd have limited human contact.

Spooky, Scary

Have any really awesome religious/YDS themed Halloween costumes? Send pictures to me (lmb78 (a) pantheon.yale.edu) and I'll post them!

And then kick him, but only a little bit

C. Sharp: How do we understand "do not be too righteous" and "do not be too wicked" in Ecclesiastes 7:16-17?
Student: I don't quite understand. I mean, can I ever be just a little wicked?
C. Sharp: Like take the orphan's bread, but don't push him down?..

Overheard in: Godly Skepticism: Ecclesiastes