Wild Olive

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!

Wild Olive is a religion podcast hosted by Jeanne Petrolle and Jennifer Bird, with 64 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Jeanne Petrolle and Jennifer Bird hosts Wild Olive, a religion show with 64 episodes published.

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  Episode #66

  #66: American Lazarus with Joanna Brooks

  Feb 13, 20261h 10mS0

  <p>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.</p> <p><p>Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here!</p><p> </p><p>Follow us here!</p><p>Blog</p><p>Instagram</p><p>Facebook</p><p> </p></p><br/> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>

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  Episode #65

  #65: The War Within Us with Prof. Liam Corley

  Nov 14, 202553 minS0

  <p>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</p> <p><p>Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here!</p><p> </p><p>Follow us here!</p><p>Blog</p><p>Instagram</p><p>Facebook</p><p> </p></p><br/> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of...

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  Episode #64

  #64: Storytelling and Identity with Peggy Sturba

  Oct 3, 202548 minS0

  <p>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".</p> <p><p>Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here!</p><p> </p><p>Follow us here!</p><p>Blog</p><p>Instagram</p><p>Facebook</p><p> </p></p><br/> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>

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  Episode #63

  #63: The Bible As A Survival Tool with Courtney Hitson

  Sep 12, 202547 minS0

  <p>Jeanne talks with Courtney Hitson! Together they discuss their spiritual origins, atheism and the work of Flannery O'Connor. </p> <p><p>Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here!</p><p> </p><p>Follow us here!</p><p>Blog</p><p>Instagram</p><p>Facebook</p><p> </p></p><br/> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>

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  Episode #62

  #62: Liberating The Bible with Jody Ondich

  Aug 1, 202536 minS0

  <p>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.</p><p>Read Jody Ondich's Book "Reading the Bible as Literature: a Journey" Here!: https://minnstate.pressbooks.pub/bible/</p> <p><p>Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here!</p><p> </p><p>Follow us here!</p><p>Blog</p><p>Instagram</p><p>Facebook</p><p> </p></p><br/> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection an...

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