32 episodes

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!

Wild Olive Jeanne Petrolle and Jennifer Bird

    • Religion & Spirituality
    • 4.4 • 7 Ratings

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!

    S2 Episode 14: Oscar Wilde's Jesus | Part 1

    S2 Episode 14: Oscar Wilde's Jesus | Part 1

    This week, Jennifer and Jeanne begin a conversation on Oscar Wilde's "De Profundis" (1905). Together they discuss Wilde's legacy, how he perceives Christ as an artist and analyzing "penal substitutionary atonement".

    • 34 min
    S2 Episode 13: The Apocalypse & Bad Indians

    S2 Episode 13: The Apocalypse & Bad Indians

    This week, Jeanne is solo and talking more in depth about Indigenous perceptions on the Apocalypse featuring writings from authors on Deborah A. Miranda's "Bad Indians", Sherman Alexie's "Crow Testament" and Scot McKnight's "Revelation for the Rest of Us".

    • 20 min
    S2 Episode 12: Christian Mission & Bad Indians | Part 2

    S2 Episode 12: Christian Mission & Bad Indians | Part 2

    Jeanne and Jennifer continue their discussion on Deborah A. Miranda's "Bad Indians" an award winning memoir which gives readers a first-hand experience in the history and culture of the Californian Indians.

    • 36 min
    S2 Episode 11: Christian Mission & Bad Indians | Part 1

    S2 Episode 11: Christian Mission & Bad Indians | Part 1

    Jennifer and Jeanne begin an in-depth discussion on Deborah A. Miranda's "Bad Indians", an award winning memoir which gives readers a first-hand experience in the history and culture of the Californian Indians.

    • 42 min
    S2 Episode 10: Killers of the Flower Moon

    S2 Episode 10: Killers of the Flower Moon

    Jeanne and Jennifer break down weaponized faith in Martin Scorsese's crime drama "Killers of the Flower Moon" in this episode of WildER Olive. Also discussed, Linda Hogan's book "Mean Spirit" and a look at how spirituality is used as a tool, for better and worse.

    • 45 min
    S2 Episode 9: Morissette & The Sabbath

    S2 Episode 9: Morissette & The Sabbath

    Jennifer and Jeanne dissect Emily Dickinson's poem "Some Keep the Sabbath" and Alanis Morrissette's "Citizen of the Planet". Together they discuss for the sacredness of nature, the beauty of isolation and what makes a space "holy".

    • 32 min

Customer Reviews

4.4 out of 5
7 Ratings

7 Ratings

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