Wild Olive
Wild Olive
Jeanne Petrolle and Jennifer Bird
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!
#67: Waiting For Godot with Andy Peterson & Eric Levy
Jeanne talks with Andy Peterson and Eric Levy about Samuel Beckett's "Waiting For Godot".
May 17
49 min
#66: American Lazarus with Joanna Brooks
Wild Olive is back! Join Jeanne as she talks with literature scholar and Mormon influencer Joanna Brooks about the Lazarus tradition in early American literature.
Feb 13
1 hr 10 min
#65: The War Within Us with Prof. Liam Corley
Jeanne 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 Religion" as well as how war and prose go hand in hand. Prof. Corley's article can be found here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/44314029
Nov 14, 2025
52 min
#64: Storytelling and Identity with Peggy Sturba
Jeanne 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 McCormack’s Solar Bones".
Oct 3, 2025
47 min
#63: The Bible As A Survival Tool with Courtney Hitson
Jeanne talks with Courtney Hitson! Together they discuss their spiritual origins, atheism and the work of Flannery O'Connor.
Sep 12, 2025
46 min
#62: Liberating The Bible with Jody Ondich
Joining 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 choice of abstaining from religion. Read Jody Ondich's Book "Reading the Bible as Literature: a Journey" Here!: https://minnstate.pressbooks.pub/bible/
Aug 1, 2025
36 min
#61:  Reverend Doctor Yolanda Pierce
Jeanne 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'
Jul 4, 2025
1 hr 9 min
#60: Dr. Miranda Zapor Cruz on Christian Nationalism and the Jesus-Way
Jeanne 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 Politics, Christian Nationalism and the Jesus-Way do not go together.
Jun 6, 2025
53 min
S4 Episode 3:  Dreams-- with Jennifer!
Jennifer is back! --And joining in on this season's conversation of dreams in the bible! Joining us is citizen scholar, Luke Moss.
Apr 25, 2025
49 min
S4 Episode 2: The Dreamings of Abimelech
Jeanne and citizen scholar, Luke Moss are back to analyze the twenty-one dreams featured in the Bible!
Apr 4, 2025
32 min
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