39 episodes
Wild Olive Jeanne Petrolle and Jennifer Bird
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- Religion & Spirituality
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4.6 • 9 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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S3 Episode 6: Talking Jesus With Gen Z - Klara Carrera
Jeanne interviews Wild Olive Audio Engineer, Klara Carrera. Together they analyze sitcom Jane The Virgin, Herman Hesse's 1922 novel "Siddhartha" and The Gospel of John.
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S3 Episode 5: Nabal & Abigail
Jeanne goes solo to discuss an interesting biblical marriage between Abigail, the beautiful and clever, to Nabal, a Calebite.
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S3 Episode 4: Marriage & The Bible | Part 3
Jennifer and Jeanne continue to discuss Jennifer's new book "Marriage In The Bible". Together they talk on the mistranslation of "marriage" in the bible and what matrimony means in the modern world.
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S3 Episode 3: Marriage & The Bible | Part 2
This week, Jeanne and Jennifer continue their conversation on Jennifer's new book "Marriage In The Bible". Together they discuss marriage as it appears in Genesis 1.28, the Daniel diet and the culture of eunuchs both past and present.
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S3 Episode 2: Talking Jesus With Gen Z - Matt Byrne
Kicking off a new series "Talking Jesus With Gen Z", Jeanne starts with Wild Olive Producer, Matt Byrne. Together they discuss Christ imagery in Lord of the Rings, Matt's centenarian Grandmother and the history of famous musicians.
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S3 Episode 1: Marriage & The Bible | Part 1
This week, Jennifer and Jeanne speak on Jennifer's new book "Marriage In The Bible". Together they discuss what it means to have a "Biblical" marriage, modern interpretations on the "head of the woman" and Margaret Atwood's poem "Habitation".
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!