Well now you can minister to Him.

MDiv. Student: "I feel like sometimes in our conversations, Jesus is being marginalized."

Overheard: Common Room.

Welp. That's enough overheards for today.

Female MDiv: "It was like Jesus was flowing through my mouth!"

Overheard: Common Room

Here all night! Tip your servers! Ba-ding!

A certain NT scholar at YDS*: "You've heard the one about how to separate the men from the boys in ancient Greece?"

Former NT professor: "No, do tell."

Certain scholar: "With a crowbar!"

Overheard: New Testament Interpretation (discussion of Romans 1)

*You have two strong contenders.  Go domestic.

I've often felt the same reading Revelation

Student, reading a complex article written in the late 1960s: "I would like her more if I thought this article was drug-induced."

SURE SHE WAS.

Library student worker, to an exiting researcher: "See you tomorrow."

Female Researcher working on a book: "No you won’t. I have to visit another library."

Librarian: "You’re cheating on us?"

Female Researcher working on a book:  "Sorry, but as much as I like this library, there’s not that many prostitutes here."

Explanation, the researcher is working on book about prostitution. Or, she's "working" on a "book" about prostitution"."  

Church pastors never feel this way. Definitely not ever.

Carolyn Sharp: "Foes—I mean—folks in the pews. Ha. Foes in the pews. If you've read Freud... I'll have to process that later with my spiritual director."

Overheard in OT I

Maybe you can slurp it up 101 Dalmations-style. That would be cute.

MAR:  "My management of my interpersonal life is equivalent to a five-year-old's management of spaghetti on a plate."

God, you people are nerds.

M.Div. 1: If you google "interpenetration," all of the results are about theology.
M.Div. 2: That's disappointing. Though I guess 3 is a factor of 69.

Overheard: Computer Cluster

Porno Vultures: A great band name

MDiv student murmuring to another: "I'm spending way too much time writing about the Four Noble Truths."

MAR student at the same table: "I thought you said you're writing about 'porno vultures', and that can't possibly be right..."

Overheard in: The Refectory

If my baby was a slow loris, I wouldn't eat it either.

Female Student: Why are we evolutionarily programmed to love things that have big eyes and move slowly?

Male Student: So we don't eat our children when they wake us up at 3 in the morning...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9f-6jygRJk

And as the Lord said, "Turneth thy head and cough."

Student discussing Movember: "I refer to myself as the apostle to the prostate."

So is a haircut kind of like circumcision of the balls...?

MAR: "As we learned in Gender in Early Christianity, (pointing to his hair) these are basically testicles on my head."

***true story: a certain New Testament scholar wrote an article claiming that the I Corinthians command for women to cover their heads was really just about basic human modesty for the early Christians, who saw hair as genitalia because they thought it was used to store semen. yup.

Martin Jean: So generous with his footwear

at ISM Colloquium

Martin Jean (selecting order for presenters): Hmm...well, should we go in height order?
Teresa Berger (stepping up to the podium): I would have worn my high heels but I biked to work today...
Martin Jean: You can borrow mine.

YDS Students: On Fire for Academics

in the commuter lounge:
a student drops a wet tea bag onto an open outlet in the floor.
student 1: "the outlet is smoking! it might catch fire!"
student 2: "don't fix it- if it catches fire i won't have to go to my 1:30 class."

Aye Aye, Cap'n!

a student lies sprawled out on the ground in the hallway

denys turner walks by and remarks:
"what possesses someone to assume such an inelegant posture? you should stand at attention when i pass by!"

Someone's Been Reading Numbers...

MDiv: I told my boyfriend I was sad he wasn't coming to visit until January. But then I told him I wasn't going to complain, because today I learned that if you complain, God will drown you in quail.

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

In Anglican History and Theology 2:

STM: Schism is our gift to the church.

Is it?

Spinks on religious statuary:

"One person's garden gnome is another person's dear friend."

You're Not Wrong...

A 3rd Year MDiv's response to watching an hour-long film of the Sarum Rite in Class:

MDiv: "This is why we need a Reformation."

Hey, Hova. JC's coming and wants a word...

Student 1: "Is that how it works? Holy Ghost lays the beats and the Jesus throws raps on top?"
2: "Yeah, but she's usually more into ambient."



Aaaaand we're back.