January 2012
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You know you're a Div student when...
…you see something about the “BCS Championship” and think it has something to do with a grudge match between Willie Jennings and J Kameron Carter. [Kara Slade, M.Div. ‘12]
December 2011
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You know you're a Div student when...
…you spend from Thanksgiving to December 24 trying to convince everyone that it’s not Christmas yet, and December 26 to January 6 trying to convince everyone that it’s still Christmas.
You know you're a Div student when...
…you watch Rise of the Planet of the Apes and come away feeling concerned about its message of genetic progress and the subtle implications for eugenics.
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You know you're a Div student when...
…you get excited about Christmas money because it means you can buy books for next semester.
You know you're a Div student when...
…the little chocolate soldiers in your Christmas stocking make you think of Just War Theory. [Tom Lewis, M.Div. ‘12]
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You know you're a Div student when...
…you use the fact that, liturgically speaking, the Christmas season is the 12 days AFTER Christmas as an excuse for mailing your Christmas cards late.
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You know you're a Div student when...
…you quote Brueggemann at a friend while talking them through a breakup.
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You know you're a Div student when...
…the entire New Testament section of your Bible is literally falling out and you fear being called a Marcionite. [Amie Stewart, M.Div. ‘12]
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You know you're a Div student when...
…while home for Christmas break, you start watching The Land Before Time on VHS, but this time around, you start a Word document to save Littlefoot’s quotes so that you can use them in a future sermon about the eschaton. [Sara Moser, M.Div. ‘12]
November 2011
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You know you're a Div student when...
…on the last day of class, your preceptor blesses you with water from the Jordan River. [Sara Moser, M.Div. ‘12]
You know you're a Div student when...
…you get albs for your mother to give to you and your wife for Christmas. [Ron Beaton, M.Div. ‘12]
You know you're a Div student when...
…you google “slang names for father Abraham.” [Sara Moser, M.Div. ‘12]
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You know you're a Div student when...
…You are “generally against cartography” (see Amy Laura Hall quote from last spring) because of its ties to Hegel’s master-slave dialectic, imperial expansion, and the definition of national identity vis-a-vis the colonial Other. [Kara Slade, M.Div. ‘12]
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October 2011
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You know you're a Div student when...
…you feel conflicted about wishing people a “Happy Reformation Sunday.”
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You know you're a Div student when...
…you put John Howard Yoder’s name into a sermon just to throw a bone to your classmates.
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You know you're a Div student when...
…you laugh at a grammar joke about Moses in a sermon.
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You know you're a Div student when...
…you feel extreme guilt after you slow down for a guy broken down on the side of the road, but then speed up and drive off when you realize that he is not the parent of a youth that you are picking up in the church van. [Rachel Gordon, M.Div. ‘12]
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You know you're a Div student when...
…your house keeps a copy of Thomas a Kempis near at hand for bathroom reading. [Austin Rivera, M.Div. ‘12]
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You know you're a Div student when...
…you preach about caring for the poor, while simultaneously spending more money on beer every week than on ministries that do, in fact, care for the poor. [Matt Morin, M.Div. ‘12]
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You know you're a Div student when...
…a barker at the state fair yells “come to the races!” and you yell back “race is a construct!” [Ruthan Freese, M.Div. ‘10]
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You know you're a Div student when...
…you believe in life after death, but you’re not so sure about life after e-Print.
September 2011
10 posts
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You know you're a Div student when...
…literally everyone at the table says “God bless you” when someone has sneezed. [Logan Mehl-Laituri, MTS ‘13]
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You know you're a Div student when...
…you have a homework assignment that involves you reading the Bible for an hour in the mall, a hospital waiting room or a cemetery.
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You know you're a Div student when...
…you can see Bishop Carder twitching in the back of your mind upon hearing Rev. Dr. Anonymous say, ‘I can add whatever I’d like to the Book of Discipline, it’s part of being an elder!’ [Anonymous]
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You know you're a Div student when...
…the top shelf of one of your bookshelves goes like this: Bible Handbook, Oxford Annotated NRSV, Qur’an, Book of Mormon, 2 Lutheran hymnals (old and new), 4 Methodist Hymnals (my great great grandma’s, my great grandma’s, my grandpa’s, and the one I got last week), Methodist Bk of Worship, Bk of Discipline, Greek NT, BoCP, and the KJV. [Kate Flynn, M.Div....
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“Pizza! Hallelujah!”
– Jason Evans, M.Div. ‘12, expressing joy at the free food that occasionally graces the tables outside the student lounge
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You know you're a Div student when...
…someone is telling you about their incredible trip to Italy, and it sounds cool and all, but you get really excited when they mention they took a side trip to Ephesus.
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You know you're a Div student when...
…the weatherman says “Here’s the good news” and you think “Jesus Christ died for us while we were still sinners, that proves God’s love towards us.” [Daniel Wray, M.Div. ‘12]
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You know you're a Div student when...
…the best night ever now consists of drinking hot chocolate, playing darts, and drawing a map of the Holy Land for your boyfriend. [Erin Cloninger, M.Div. ‘14]
August 2011
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You know you're a Div student when...
…you laugh, hard, at a joke whose punchline includes the term “midrash.”
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You know you're a Div student when...
…you gather for prayer before going to the bar. [Sara Moser, M.Div. ‘12]
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You know you're a Div student when...
…orientation makes it clear that the dress code for Div students is plaid shirts and TOMS shoes.
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You know you're a Div student when...
…you go into the attic for something and realize that your winter clothes are stored, in more than a few instances, in Cokesbury bags.
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You know you're a Div student when...
…you experience anxiety and confusion when the lector asks the congregation to stand for the Epistle reading.
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You know you're a Div student when...
…instead of bashing your head uselessly against your steering wheel, you voice the hope that, maybe, in the eschaton…the South Carolina stretch of I-95 will finally have 3 lanes. [Kate Flynn, M.Div. ‘12]
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You know you're a Div student when...
…you are frustrated because you can’t find an Anglican/Episcopal Morning Prayer podcast that you like. [Christina Tremill, M.Div. ‘11]
July 2011
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You know you're a Div student when...
…a casual conversation with the person behind you in line at Chipotle somehow comes around to Thomas Aquinas and St. Francis of Assisi.
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You know you're a Div student when...
…your heart skips a beat when you have 2 different conversations about the awesomeness of Bonhoeffer with 2 completely different groups of people over the course of 48 hours.
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YKYADSW you have conversations like this...
Girlfriend: Be good.
Boyfriend: But I don't want to.
Girlfriend: Only good boys go to heaven.
Boyfriend: Pelagian.
June 2011
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You know you're a Div student when...
…overhearing Belinda Carlisle’s “Heaven Is a Place On Earth” in a drug store prompts contemplation on the nature of the eschaton.
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You know you're a Div student when...
…you hear the organist practicing and recognize the hymn tune…by name…and composer…and associate it with a 3rd-century heretic. (FINLANDIA, by Sibelius, not Sabellius…)