Wild Olive
by Jeanne Petrolle and Jennifer Bird
Latest episode
#67: Waiting For Godot with Andy Pederson & Eric Levy
#67: Waiting For Godot with Andy Pederson & Eric Levy
About this podcast
The Wild Olive Podcast brings you game-changing conversations about literature, culture, and the Bible. With co-hosts Jeanne Petrolle and Jennifer Bird, Wild Olive serves up idea-feasts: tasty insights about biblical texts and contemporary (or classic!) literature, with generous side-portions of cultural commentary and hearty laughter. One literature professor + one biblical studies professor = uncontrolled, out-of-bounds, untamed conversation: ideal listening for the post-evangelical, the spiritual-but-not-religious, the Bible-curious secularist, the free-thinking religionist, and the literary-but-not-stodgy!
New episodes every other Friday!
Episodes
The newest 20 of 65 episodes
- #67: Waiting For Godot with Andy Pederson & Eric Levy · 50 min · Episode 67Jeanne talks with Andy Pederson and Eric Levy about Samuel Beckett's "Waiting For Godot".
- #66: American Lazarus with Joanna Brooks · 1 h 10 min · Episode 66Wild Olive is back! Join Jeanne as she talks with literature scholar and Mormon influencer Joanna Brooks about the Lazarus tradition in early American literature.
- #65: The War Within Us with Prof. Liam Corley · 53 min · Episode 65Jeanne talks with Liam Corley, a Professor, Scholar, Poet and Solider. Together they discuss his article "The Jouissance" of Belief: Devotional Reading and the (Re)Turn to…
- #64: Storytelling and Identity with Peggy Sturba · 48 min · Episode 64Jeanne talks with Peggy Sturba, Visiting Asst. Professor of Honors at Coastal Carolina University and author of "‘That Which Remains: Memory, Identity, and Gothic Modernism in…
- #63: The Bible As A Survival Tool with Courtney Hitson · 47 min · Episode 63Jeanne talks with Courtney Hitson! Together they discuss their spiritual origins, atheism and the work of Flannery O'Connor.
- #62: Liberating The Bible with Jody Ondich · 36 min · Episode 62Joining Jeanne this week is Jody Ondich, Professor of Philosophy at Lake Superior College! Together, they discuss the benefits of open text resources, humor in the bible and the…
- #61: Reverend Doctor Yolanda Pierce · 1 h 9 min · Episode 61Jeanne talks with Reverend Doctor Yolanda Pierce about the Chicago Black Renaissance, Poet Margaret Walker and Dr. Pierce's new book 'The Wounds Are the Witness'
- #60: Dr. Miranda Zapor Cruz on Christian Nationalism and the Jesus-Way · 54 min · Episode 60Jeanne sits down with Professor Miranda Zapor Cruz. Join them for conversation about the nature of power, citizenship, and the Jesus-Way. As Cruz explains in her book Faithful…
- S4 Episode 3: Dreams-- with Jennifer! · 49 min · Episode 59Jennifer is back! --And joining in on this season's conversation of dreams in the bible! Joining us is citizen scholar, Luke Moss.
- S4 Episode 2: The Dreamings of Abimelech · 32 min · Episode 58Jeanne and citizen scholar, Luke Moss are back to analyze the twenty-one dreams featured in the Bible!
- S4 Episode 1: Dreams with Gen Z · 36 min · Episode 57This week, Jeanne is joined by her Wild Olive colleagues (Matt, Klara & Luke) to discuss Levertov's poem "The Jacob's Ladder" and kick off this season's theme of "Dreams"…
- S3 Episode 19: The Sauciness of "Song of Songs" · 41 min · Episode 56This week, Jennifer and Jeanne entertain ideas found in chapter nine of Jennifer's book "Marriage and The Bible" through interpretation of "The Song of Songs" as love poems, and…
- S3 Episode 18: Four Scandalous Women (Not Including Us) · 38 min · Episode 55Jeanne and Jennifer return! With them, they bring a new discussion on the four women who appear in the genealogy for Jesus; Tamar, Rahab, Ruth and Bathsheba. Together, their…
- Annunciation & Virginity · 37 min · Episode 54Continuing our hiatus, we present an episode from season one as Jennifer and Jeanne dive deep into "The Annunciation" by Edward Muir. Pairing it with Luke Chapter 1, they discuss…
- Mrs. Lazarus & The Idea of Resurrection · 42 min · Episode 53While Jeanne and Jennifer take a short hiatus for the next batch of episodes, hear an episode from our back catalog that relates to this seasons theme of "Marriage and the…
- S3 Episode 17: Christmas Stories: One Birth, Two Accounts · 39 min · Episode 52In the spirit of the holiday season, Jennifer and Jeanne discuss two different accounts of Jesus' birth. One from Luke, the other from Matthew in the New Testament. Together they…
- S3 Episode 16: Why You Shouldn't Get Married (According to Paul) · 36 min · Episode 51This week, Jeanne and Jennifer discuss the biblical concept of staying unmarried, celibate or widowed as outlined by Paul in 1 Corinthians.
- S3 Episode 15: A Tale of Two Bathshebas · 38 min · Episode 50It's an analyzation of two fascinating literary characters! Jennifer and Jeanne dissect the parallels between the Bathsheba, as found in The Book of Samuel, and her inspiration…
- S3 Episode 14: The Power of The Name · 33 min · Episode 49This week, Jeanne and Jennifer discuss the concept of labels, language and the power to use them, through the lens of Ursula K. Le Guin's short story "She Unnames Them".
- S3 Episode 13: How The Suffragettes Took The Bible Back · 51 min · Episode 48Jennifer is back! And this week, she and Jeanne discuss the significance and impact of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's "The Woman's Bible" (1895).
