Reach, brothers and sisters. Reach!

Student: "You mean we have to live up to the jazz hands."

Overheard: Gospel choir

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

Then Walt Disney is God.

Miroslav Volf: "This is the Mickey Mouse account of incarnation."

Overheard: Systematic Theology

Keep trying, little one.

At a Thanksgiving party:

MDiv 1: "Will someone clean my rooooom?"
MDiv 2: "No."
MDiv 1: "How do you know?! Someone might!"
MDiv 2: "Oh.  Excuse me for being the prophetic voice here."

We all have a gift.

Student 1: "We're all terrible sinners!"

Student 2: "Actually, we're pretty good at it."

Watch out for them. Never trust the friendly ones.

Mark Miller: "This song was written by a Canadian, and it's wildly popular in the Midwest.  Who knows it?"
MDiv: "I do."
Mark Miller: "Are you from the Midwest?"
MDiv:  "No.  But I knew some Canadians . . . once."
Mark Miller: "It happens to the best of us."

You might be in the wrong place if that makes you uncomfortable.

Student, walking to the south wing: "I like that one random photo of the guy painting. He looks way less dorky than everyone else there."

I would stop for a burrito first.

Baden: "Why did the Israelite spies go right to the prostitute's house when they entered Jericho? I don't know.  I guess what happens in Jericho stays in Jericho."

Old Testament? You mean Part 1, right?

Student: “I preached my sermon on the Old Testament and didn’t mention Jesus until the LAST paragraph. Nora Tubbs Tisdale would have had a fit.”

Overheard: Outside Latourette Hall

Which borough is that?

MDiv 1: "Are you a Giants fan?"
MDiv 2: "No you're thinking of [Person X]. She's the Giants fan."
MDiv 1: "Oh. Well, she'll perish in everlasting fire."

Overheard: Sarah Smith Gallery

Derrida, Foucalt, Baudrillard, and Lyotard hunched over a game of Stratego

2nd year MDiv: “Isn’t that like the post-modern wet dream?”

Presactly

1: "What if it stays in imbagaguity land?"
2: "We'll cross that bridge when it comes to that."
1: "What?"
2: "Don't cross your name off the score card before the pins are even set down."

Never forget yonic, son.

MDiv: "One time I forgot yonic, and it made me crazy."

Preach it!

STM: "It kind of bums me out that my menstrual cycle doesn't have more gravitas unto itself."

If only meat were BS...

Student: "You can't keep up with that kind of meat output."

Overheard: OT Section

Or the Showcase Showdown!

MAR: "The price was right." [pause] "I'm going to hell."


Overheard: Greek New Testament reading group, speaking about the thirty pieces of silver Judas received to betray Jesus

Water from a stone, friends. Water from a stone.

MDiv: "Is Easter strong enough to resurrect fun at U of C?"

Perfect summation of ivy league academia? You decide.

MDiv: "So, which way to the 'Build your own ark' lecture?"
MAR: "We need one.  Or one on 'How to Walk on Water.'"
MDiv:  "I don't know about that one.  I don't think I'm divine.  That's a problem."
MAR: "I do.  That's also a problem."

No transubstantiation necessary

MDiv 1: "He kinda looks like a butcher."
MDiv 2: "Of Jesus."



(said at the ordination service of an alumnus, as he was putting on his new alb, right before Communion)

Is he wearing a cardigan and argyle?

MDiv, looking for images of Jesus online: "Hey, here's a nice Jesus. He's kind of got that Jesus-next-door look."