A rock at the foot of a tree?

Random patron: If your dog wins the Oedipal struggle...

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Random patron: So I asked him, which do you want to be, a tree or a rock?



Overheard: Koffee on Audubon

Someone's working for the wrong team...

Bryan Spinks: Some say the liturgy is meant to be an earthly reflection of what happens in Heaven. In that case, I think we've all seen liturgies that would rather make us want to go to The Other Place.

Overheard: Foundations of Christian Worship

Your bible is a wonderland

Student 1: How was SBL?
Student 2: It was a Bible Wonderland!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Have a lovely Thanksgiving! Here's a Jesus-turkey for you:


I bet Mary's got plenty of these around the house...

Also, Word to the Wise 1: I don't know who from Princeton Theological Seminary is googling "yale divinity school gossip" but you're not going to find it on here. Keep your internet to yourself, Jersey!

Word to the Wise 2: Make sure you have safe search on when googling this phrase: jesus turkey.

I think it's a great solution

(complaining about someone on facebook)
Student 1: You know what? I'm just going to defriend him. That'll solve all my problems.
Student 2: Welcome to adulthood.

Thanks for being not square?

Willis Jenkins: Thanks for being circular today.

Overheard: Bonhoeffer and King

You must feel strongly about this

Tom Troeger: If any of you ever preach a boring sermon, may you go to hell, because there is one thing that the Gospel is not and that is boring.

I was in class and I'm not even sure I can pronounce those words

Christopher Beeley: Not all monophysites were aphthartodocetists.

Overheard: Patristics

You're so fair... I bet you think this class period is about you, 'bout you

(after a longish debate over whether an author accurately describes his own project)
Student: On page two, he says--
Gene Outka: I mean, I just--OK, yes, let's read first. We'll do the fair bit and then I'll say something later.

Overheard in: Religion and Morality

I'll try that with my final papers

(on Catcher in the Rye)
Student: Here's what I don't get about that postmodern literature... it's like they just didn't proofread and called it a new genre. They wrote on a toilet paper roll and stopped when the roll ran out.

But they do so much for your legs, even as symbols of societal expectations for women

Mike Giaquinto: It's been a long time since I've worn high heels but I remember them being not very comfortable.

The Rhineland cities don't move like those other cities

Bruce Gordon: I'm sorry... you'll see I've taken this [map] from a cruise website, but the cities haven't changed.

Overheard: History of Western Christianity

Yeah, and Tron

(cuddling with friends)
Gay student: I feel like a straight man! Cuddle, my women! Make me some beans!
Female student 1: Beans?
Gay student: Is that what straight men like?

Rejection!

Student to other student: Well, it could be true and I still wouldn't sleep with you.

Overheard: Commuter Lounge

I'll stand in solidarity with polar bears

Carolyn Sharp: I'm quite sure that puffins and polar bears were not part of Jeremiah's people, but you could decide that polar bears are part of your people (as a prophetic strategy of ecological solidarity).

Overheard: Scripture and Social Ethics

Because that's too easy

TA Marcus Elder: Why couldn't God have inspired something more straightforward like Plato's Timaeus?

Overheard: History of Western Christianity

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