Wild Olive

By: Jeanne Petrolle and Jennifer Bird
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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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  • Mrs. Lazarus & The Idea of Resurrection

    Mrs. Lazarus & The Idea of Resurrection
    Jan 3 2025

    While Jeanne and Jennifer take a short hiatus for the next batch of episodes, hear an episode from our back catalog that relates to this seasons theme of "Marriage and the Bible"! This episode explore "Mrs. Lazarus," a poem by the Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy. The poem remixes the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. As they engage the Gospel story alongside Duffy's poem, your hosts discuss the meaning of resurrection as a life-death-life pattern that appears in the Hebrew Bible, the Newer Testament and, metaphorically speaking, in life outside literature.

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    42 mins
  • S3 Episode 17: Christmas Stories: One Birth, Two Accounts

    S3 Episode 17: Christmas Stories: One Birth, Two Accounts
    Dec 20 2024

    In the spirit of the holiday season, Jennifer and Jeanne discuss two different accounts of Jesus' birth. One from Luke, the other from Matthew in the New Testament. Together they analyze how these two separate tales have been blended together over time to create the story we think we know today.

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    39 mins
  • S3 Episode 16: Why You Shouldn't Get Married (According to Paul)

    S3 Episode 16: Why You Shouldn't Get Married (According to Paul)
    Dec 6 2024

    This week, Jeanne and Jennifer discuss the biblical concept of staying unmarried, celibate or widowed as outlined by Paul in 1 Corinthians.

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    36 mins

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