I don't know about you, but I'm cool

Student: We're some of the most awkward people ever! We're divinity students!

overheard: commuter lounge

Inappropriate... but funny.

Student 1: I always think of you when I'm in church.
Student 2: I thought you were going to say I always think of church when I'm in you... which would have been highly inappropriate.

happy easter!

No, really! I know someone on tv!

(watching John Collins on the History Channel)
Student: He sounds a little sick.

Jenkin's rose is in bloom

[students off-key singing Kiss From a Rose]
Student 1: Wait, so did he really work for Seal?
Student 2: ... Who?
Student 1: Willis Jenkins?!

The spatha on Golgotha? Ok, that's a stretch. I admit it.

Student: The Cross is rounds one, two, and three of a prizefighter who may be playing rope-a-dope.

Overheard in Theologies of Militarization

I'm a fan of pants-free Tuesdays

Student: Happy Cleansing of the Temple Monday. . . .

My favorite day [of Holy Week] is Spy Wednesday

Overheard in Niebuhr Hall

Hey - bad fashion is MY thing. MARs represent.

MAR number one: These pants were a dollar. A DOLLAR!

MAR number two: You're going to ride this bad economy all the way to Fashionville, aren't you?

overheard @: wall and college streets

Almost as good as "you can stand under my adela ella-ella"

YDS El Salvador Mission Trip students (to the tune of "Karma Chameleon):

Trini- Trini- Trini- Trini-
Trini-tarian
You're three in One
You're three in O-o-one.
Consubstantial with the Father
But you're three hypostases,
Just like the creeds,
The Nicene cree-ee-eeds.

Get with it, Episcoposse

Guest speaker on media relations: Next rule - always call reporters back if you say you will. Even if the church is on fire. Especially if the church is on fire, because then there will be pictures.
Student in back: See? Now if we'd been allowed to use laptops, that would have been posted to "Overheard at YDS."

Overheard in: Anglican Colloquium

Patrick can be my verb anytime

Student 1 (to fellow student who was "helpfully" singing lyrics half a measure
ahead of the recording): Hey! Don't Patrick Evans this song!
Student 2: Patrick Evans is a verb?
Student 3: Quick! Someone find a gourd!

Overheard at: party

Facebook Haggadah

The Facebook Haggadah.

Dental hygiene makes me feel better too

Student: I was feeling kind of bad about my day, and I was trying to decide if I should floss before I brushed my teeth so I thought, "Do it - it'll make you feel better." Flossing was my pick-me-up for today...

Cur Deus Vinegar

Student 1: Professor Beeley said lots of people either think Jesus was a moral exemplar or they are Anselmic Atonement Freaks.
Student 2. I have been going to school here for three years and I don't understand what you just said.
Señor Downs: Well, Anselmic is a kind of vinegar.


Overheard at Señor Clark Down's hacienda

I agree

Student 1: These goats had huge balls, giant balls!
Student 2: I am so glad you are going to be a priest.

Overheard: Friday Fellowship

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

Wagons ho!

M.Div. student, reacting to the Iowa gay marriage decision: TO THE WEST!!!

overheard: common room

It must be ministerial misconduct weekend!

Student 1 to Student 2: And don't have sex with your parishoners, ESPECIALLY if they're children.

Overheard: entering the library

What an amazing conversation

Overheard at the YDS Student Book Supply:

Student D: Hey, this sale is totally terrible. Micah is the worst manager ever.

Student L: That’s true, but at least he’s a good looking human person.

Student Gamma: Hey, you know what’s going to be great about the sale?

Student 4932: What?

Student Harry Attridge: Micah will have popcorn in the bookstore today like every Friday from 12.00pm-3.30pm! And also, the sale is totally amazing.

Jealous and so cute

Graduating student: I looked at pictures of puppies for three hours last night.