Wild Olive

About 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!

Publisher

Jeanne Petrolle and Jennifer Bird

Category

arts · religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 Nov 2022

Latest episode

17 May 2026

Latest episodes

65 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   17 May 2026

   #67: Waiting For Godot with Andy Peterson & Eric Levy

   Jeanne talks with Andy Peterson and Eric Levy about Samuel Beckett's "Waiting For Godot".

2. 

   13 Feb 2026

   #66: American Lazarus with Joanna Brooks

   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.

3. 

   14 Nov 2025

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

   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

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.6 / 5

10 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

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