33 episodes
Wild Olive Jeanne Petrolle and Jennifer Bird
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- Religion & Spirituality
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4.5 • 8 Ratings
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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!
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S2 Episode 15: Oscar Wilde's Jesus | Part 2
Jeanne and Jennifer wrap up this second season of Wild Olive with their conversation on Oscar Wilde, as part of this season's theme of "Queering The Bible". Together they discuss the concept "Man of Sorrows", life as poetry and how Wilde transformed misery into divinity.
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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".
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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".
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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.
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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.
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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.
Customer Reviews
Love the format
What I really love most about Wild Olive is how they relate the Bible to all our modern literature. I think this has been very lacking and it’s refreshing to see it come to life in the different poems that Jeanne and Jennifer talk about. Thank you so much for your time and commitment!