Why not make nap hour after Coffee hour?

Student: That's something this school lacks - a nap room.

An apple a day keeps the reading managable.

Student 1: Someone terrible once told me you have to choose the things you fall behind in.
Student 2: It's true! It's for your health.

Overheard at: YDS hallway

An empty room at YDS can only mean the rapture

Student: I smoked once. I think that's why I missed the rapture. I mean, c'mon, where is everyone?

Overheard at: Coffee Hour

CSharp lets loose

(Regarding the work and popular reviews of Robert Alter)

Carolyn Sharp: I did, once, actually receive a paper from a student who 'exegeted' what her grandmother had said about the relevant passage. It's not a prudent approach! Unless your grandmother is, you know, Gerhard von Rad. And even then, this assignment is about your interpretation of the passage, so Grandma von Rad would still need to be peripheral to your argument.

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Carolyn Sharp: Time to get a mocha and calm down about the dismissively reductionist approach to the Bible that we see so often in popular culture. And just in case you'd be tempted to say I never taught you anything worthwhile: the best mocha lattes in New Haven are at Koffee on Audubon Street. There. That's something you can cling to when all the world seems to be awash in postmodern relativism.

Overheard at: Old Testament

Lara speaks

Jamie Lara: Churches love to collect stuff. Just go to any Episcopalian church.

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Jaime Lara (on the Sacred Spaces conference): We now have 700 registered participants.... For a conference on mosques, churches and temples, hello!

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Jamie Lara: These saints, they didn't have an MDiv or MAR, and they got into heaven.

Overheard at: Iconography

A better summary than Wikipedia

Student: It seems when things are good, the Israelites ignore God and when things are bad, they say, "Oh, God, help us out."
Carolyn Sharp: There's the book of Judges right there!

Spare time well spent

Student: My dad called last night and asked what I was doing and I said, 'Oh, you know, not much, just thinking about the cultural production of whiteness.'

Overheard at: Political Economy of Misery

Greco-Roman philosophy meets Wall Street meets Haight-Asbury

Jeremy Hultin: Cynics were hippies in an age of Augustinian yuppies.

Overheard at: NT

God better not send me spam

Student: If you can't find God in e-mail, then I'm screwed, because that's where I spend all my time.

Overheard at: Commuter Lounge

Student: I swear I saw Boaz in line at the post office yesterday!

The Karls don't go down THAT easy

Systematic student: I'm just going to have her explain the theologies of Barth and Rahner briefly, in 15 minutes or so.

Overheard at: Reading week

Another reason to wipe out depression

Student: What if we were able to completely wipe out depression?
Jan Holton: We wouldn't have any more country music.

Overheard at: Pastoral Care: Suffering and Depression

Student: I always thought if I weren't Jewish I'd be Bahá'í... or Lutheran.

In the words of Ben Folds, it's hard being male, middle class and white

Student: I wake up every morning and ask myself, "Why am I so normative?"

Or Mr. Collins, he's even related

Student 1: Did you know there's a Mormon Pride and Prejudice?
Student 2: What, Mr. Darcy marries all the sisters?

Overheard at: Beer = better than theology party

Carolyn's a robot?!?

Carolyn Sharp: "This is me mocking this point of view." (in a robot voice--) "The law of the Old Testament is simply outdated and uninformative."

Overheard at: Old Testament Interpretation

Student 1: So where are you going now?
Student 2: Happy hour.
Student 1: Oh, you're a Holy Homo.

At least you won't have to pay back student loans

Student 1: I only have about 10 more years ahead of me.
Student 2: You only plan on living 10 more years?
Student 1: Well, if I get assassinated, six.

Overheard at: Commuter Lounge

I'd hate to see what lies will do

Gloria Steinem: The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Overheard at: Chubb lecture

I can fit 15 clowns in a VW Bug

First year: I can learn four languages in three years... When I say it out loud it sounds ridiculous.