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Wild Olive

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!© 2023 Wild Olive Art Christianity Literary History & Criticism Spirituality
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  • #63: The Bible As A Survival Tool with Courtney Hitson

    #63: The Bible As A Survival Tool with Courtney Hitson
    Sep 12 2025

    Jeanne talks with Courtney Hitson! Together they discuss their spiritual origins, atheism and the work of Flannery O'Connor.

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    47 mins
  • #62: Liberating The Bible with Jody Ondich

    #62: Liberating The Bible with Jody Ondich
    Aug 1 2025

    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.

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    36 mins
  • #61: Reverend Doctor Yolanda Pierce

    #61: Reverend Doctor Yolanda Pierce
    Jul 4 2025

    Jeanne talks with Reverend Doctor Yolanda Pierce about the Chicago Black Renaissance, Poet Margaret Walker and Dr. Pierce's new book 'The Wounds Are the Witness'

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    1 hr and 10 mins
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