Wild Olive

By 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 insight... more

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The podcast currently has 63 episodes available.

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November 14, 2025 #65: The War Within Us with Prof. Liam Corely
Jeanne talks with Liam Corely, 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. Corely's article can be found here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/44314029
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October 03, 2025 #64: Mysteries of the Bible 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".
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September 12, 2025 #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.
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August 01, 2025 #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/
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July 04, 2025 #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'
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June 06, 2025 #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.
Professor Miranda Zapor Cruz's Book "Faithful Politics" available at these links: https://mirandazaporcruz.com/faithful-politics/
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April 25, 2025 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.
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April 04, 2025 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!
Torrance Church - Dreamscapes of Divine Revelation: Unveiling the 21 Dreams In The Bible
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March 14, 2025 S4 Episode 1: Dreams with Gen Z
This 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". Together they analyze dreams as they appear in the Hebrew Bible, specifically Genesis and Jacob's Dream at Bethel.
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February 28, 2025 S3 Episode 19: The Sauciness of "Song of Songs"
This week, Jennifer and Jeanne entertain ideas found in chapter nine of Jennifer's book "Marriage and The Bible" through analyzation of "Song of Songs" as love poetry, and a saucy one at that!
DISCLAIMER: Technical difficulties on Jeanne's mic, apologies for sound quality!
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