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#66: American Lazarus with Joanna Brooks

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000

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.

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

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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

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#64: Storytelling and Identity with Peggy Sturba

podcast@radiantdigital.co (Matt Byrne, Jeanne Petrolle, Nick Stubblefield) — Fri, 3 Oct 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Jeanne talks with Peggy Sturba, Visiting Asst. Professor of Honors at Coastal Carolina University and author of "‘That Which Remains: Memory, Identity, and Gothic Modernism in McCormack’s Solar Bones".

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

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000

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

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#62: Liberating The Bible with Jody Ondich

Fri, 1 Aug 2025 11:00:00 +0000

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.

Read Jody Ondich's Book "Reading the Bible as Literature: a Journey" Here!: https://minnstate.pressbooks.pub/bible/

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#61: Reverend Doctor Yolanda Pierce

podcast@radiantdigital.co (Jeanne Petrolle, Matt Byrne, Nick Stubblefield) — Fri, 4 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000

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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#60: Dr. Miranda Zapor Cruz on Christian Nationalism and the Jesus-Way

Fri, 6 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Jeanne sits down with Professor Miranda Zapor Cruz. Join them for conversation about the nature of power, citizenship, and the Jesus-Way. As Cruz explains in her book Faithful Politics, Christian Nationalism and the Jesus-Way do not go together.

Professor Miranda Zapor Cruz's Book "Faithful Politics" available at these links: https://mirandazaporcruz.com/faithful-politics/

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S4 Episode 3: Dreams-- with Jennifer!

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Jennifer is back! --And joining in on this season's conversation of dreams in the bible! Joining us is citizen scholar, Luke Moss.

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S4 Episode 2: The Dreamings of Abimelech

Fri, 4 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Jeanne and citizen scholar, Luke Moss are back to analyze the twenty-one dreams featured in the Bible!

Torrance Church - Dreamscapes of Divine Revelation: Unveiling the 21 Dreams In The Bible

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S4 Episode 1: Dreams with Gen Z

Fri, 14 Mar 2025 11:00:00 +0000

This week, Jeanne is joined by her Wild Olive colleagues (Matt, Klara & Luke) to discuss Levertov's poem "The Jacob's Ladder" and kick off this season's theme of "Dreams". Together they analyze dreams as they appear in the Hebrew Bible, specifically Genesis and Jacob's Dream at Bethel.

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S3 Episode 19: The Sauciness of "Song of Songs"

podcast@radiantdigital.co (Jeanne Petrolle and Jennifer Bird) — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0000

This week, Jennifer and Jeanne entertain ideas found in chapter nine of Jennifer's book "Marriage and The Bible" through analyzation of "Song of Songs" as love poetry, and a saucy one at that!

DISCLAIMER: Technical difficulties on Jeanne's mic, apologies for sound quality!

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S3 Episode 18: Four Scandalous Women (Not Including Us)

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Jeanne and Jennifer return! With them, they bring a new discussion on the four women who appear in the genealogy for Jesus; Tamar, Rahab, Ruth and Bathsheba. Together, their stories give an insight into the biblical portrayal of femininity, motherhood and marriage.

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Annunciation & Virginity

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Continuing our hiatus, we present an episode from season one as Jennifer and Jeanne dive deep into "The Annunciation" by Edward Muir. Pairing it with Luke Chapter 1, they discuss conception, purity, motherhood and how other interpretations can affect our understanding of the story.

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Mrs. Lazarus & The Idea of Resurrection

Fri, 3 Jan 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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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S3 Episode 17: Christmas Stories: One Birth, Two Accounts

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0000

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

Fri, 6 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0000

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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S3 Episode 15: A Tale of Two Bathshebas

Sat, 23 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000

It's an analyzation of two fascinating literary characters! Jennifer and Jeanne dissect the parallels between the Bathsheba, as found in The Book of Samuel, and her inspiration by the same name in Thomas Hardy's "Far From The Madding Crowd" (1874).

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S3 Episode 14: The Power of The Name

Fri, 8 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000

This week, Jeanne and Jennifer discuss the concept of labels, language and the power to use them, through the lens of Ursula K. Le Guin's short story "She Unnames Them".

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S3 Episode 13: How The Suffragettes Took The Bible Back

podcast@radiantdigital.co (Jeanne Petrolle and Jennifer Bird) — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Jennifer is back! And this week, she and Jeanne discuss the significance and impact of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's "The Woman's Bible" (1895).

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S3 Episode 12: Bechdel, Brides & The Bible

Fri, 11 Oct 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Feminism and the Bible don't typically go hand-in-hand, but could they? This week, Jeanne discusses Christian feminism through depictions of women in the Bible and classic literature, as well as modern interpretations from notable feminist authors Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Alison Bechdel.

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S3 Episode 11: The Book of Esther

Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Jeanne goes solo to talk on biblical marriages within the bible, specifically those found in the Book of Esther.

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S3 Episode 10: Talking Jesus With Gen Z - Luke Moss

Fri, 13 Sep 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Jeanne interviews former student, Luke Moss. Together they discuss Luke's religious upbringing, his philosophical beliefs, concepts of "topos" and Darwinism.

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S3 Episode 9: Deadly Joy & Victorian Marriage

Fri, 30 Aug 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Jeanne and Jennifer chat about Kate Chopin's short story "Story of an Hour," as it relates to the Bible, feminism, marriage and a matter of life and death.

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S3 Episode 8: Victorian Marriage & The Yellow Wallpaper | Part 2

Fri, 16 Aug 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Jennifer and Jeanne continue their discussion on Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper". Together, they dig deep into the gender roles of Victorian period, the psychological impact of Stockholm syndrome and the act of putting women on a pedestal.

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S3 Episode 7: Victorian Marriage & The Yellow Wallpaper | Part 1

Fri, 2 Aug 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Jeanne and Jennifer are back with a conversation about the Bible's impact on Victorian marriages. Through the lens of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892), they examine how Victorian marriage constricted women and how the Bible helped create those constrictions.

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S3 Episode 6: Talking Jesus With Gen Z - Klara Carrera

Fri, 19 Jul 2024 22:20:32 +0000

Jeanne interviews Wild Olive Audio Engineer, Klara Carrera. While chatting about Jesus, they range over the sitcom Jane The Virgin, Herman Hesse's 1922 novel "Siddhartha," and The Gospel of John.

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S3 Episode 5: Abigail, Take-Charge Biblical Wife

Sat, 6 Jul 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Jeanne goes solo to present the story of Abigail, a "take-charge" biblical wife married to a dodo.

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S3 Episode 4: Marriage & The Bible | Part 3

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Jennifer and Jeanne continue their conversation about Jennifer's new book "Marriage In The Bible." Together they talk about the mistranslation of the words "husband," "wife," and "marriage" in the Bible, considering how marriage practices in the modern world affect translation and interpretation of biblical texts.

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S3 Episode 3: Marriage & The Bible | Part 2

Fri, 7 Jun 2024 11:00:00 +0000

This week, Jeanne and Jennifer continue their conversation about Jennifer's new book "Marriage In The Bible." Together they discuss marriage as it appears in Genesis 1.28.

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S3 Episode 2: Talking Jesus With Gen Z - Matt Byrne

Fri, 24 May 2024 11:00:00 +0000

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.

Listen to Matt's Show Here:

https://open.spotify.com/show/745JwgfSbILakcdFt1fsNq?si=ea73bd2815e2444c

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S3 Episode 1: Marriage & The Bible | Part 1

Fri, 10 May 2024 11:00:00 +0000

This week, Jennifer and Jeanne talk about Jennifer's new book "Marriage In The Bible". The conversation explores the phrase "biblical" marriage," suggesting that the Bible portrays heterosexual arrangements that most twenty-first century people--conservative Christians included--would NOT want to imitate. Jennifer gets honest about what biblical passages do and don't say about men and women partnering, desentimentalizing "biblical marriage." Jeanne shares Margaret Atwood's poem "Habitation," which also de-sentimentalizes marriage.

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S2 Episode 15: Oscar Wilde's Jesus | Part 2

Fri, 26 Apr 2024 11:00:00 +0000

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

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 11:00:00 +0000

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 explaining the widely used concept of "penal substitutionary atonement".

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S2 Episode 13: The Apocalypse & Bad Indians

Fri, 29 Mar 2024 11:00:00 +0000

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

Fri, 15 Mar 2024 11:00:00 +0000

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

Fri, 1 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000

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

Fri, 16 Feb 2024 12:00:00 +0000

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.

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S2 Episode 9: Morissette & The Sabbath

Fri, 2 Feb 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Jennifer and Jeanne dissect Emily Dickinson's poem "Some Keep the Sabbath" and Alanis Morrissette's "Citizen of the Planet". Together they discuss for the sacredness of nature, the beauty of isolation and what makes a space "holy".

Links:

Some Keep The Sabbath - Emily Dickinson

Citizen Of The Planet - Alanis Morrissette

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S2 Episode 8: Emily Dickinson and Spiritual Thirst

Fri, 19 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000

This week, Jeanne and Jennifer discuss the symbolism of water wells as they appear in Genesis and the poetry of Emily Dickinson. Together they explore concepts of maternity, divine intervention and desire.

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S2 Episode 7: Barbie, Feminism and The Book of Ruth

Fri, 5 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Introducing "Wilder Olive", A more laid back approach to some of Jeanne and Jennifer's favorite current topics as they relate to the Bible, modern literature and culture. This week, Barbie! An in-depth analysis into the social ideas presented within the film, as well as it's many biblical references.

READ JEANNE'S ARTICLE HERE:

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildolive/2023/08/barbie-the-bible-and-the-book-of-ruth/

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S2 Episode 6: Returning To Eden - An Interview with Heather Hamilton

Sat, 23 Dec 2023 12:00:00 +0000

This week, Jennifer is joined by author Heather Hamilton to discuss her book "Returning To Eden: A Field Guide for the Spiritual Journey". They dive deep into Heather's experience with depression, her own spiritual journey to self-realization, how psychology and mythology helped her cope, and how she found her true self.

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S2 Episode 5: Eve Side-Stealer and Indigenous Faith

Fri, 8 Dec 2023 12:00:00 +0000

This week, Jennifer and Jeanne compare Luke Chapter I to Natalie Diaz's poem "Eve Side-Stealer" and discuss ideas of Indigenous faith, women in biblical text and the effects of imposed religion.

Works Cited:

Diaz, Natalie. "If Eve Side-Stealer & Mary Busted-Chest Ruled the World". Yale Divinity School , 2013: https://reflections.yale.edu/article/future-race/if-eve-side-stealer-mary-busted-chest-ruled-world

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S2 Episode 4: Wrestling with Angels

Fri, 24 Nov 2023 22:00:00 +0000

This week, Jeanne and Jennifer are back and wrapping up their engagement on Kushner's work with a discussion about characters wrestling with angels - Jacob in the Hebrew Bible and Prior & Joseph in Angels in America (1991).

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S2 Episode 3: Angels In America | Part 3

Fri, 10 Nov 2023 12:00:00 +0000

This week, Jeanne is joined by professor and author, Deborah Holdstein. Together they explore Christian and Jewish concepts of forgiveness and reconciliation present in Tony Kushner's play Angels In America (1991), continuing this season's theme "Queering The Bible".

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S2 Episode 2: Angels In America | Part 2

Fri, 20 Oct 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Jennifer and Jeanne continue their in-depth discussion and analysis of angels as portrayed in Tony Kushner's stage play "Angels In America" (1991), an entangled story of various characters struggling with identity, faith and mortality in 1980s New York City during the AIDS crisis. This season, our hosts will be taking on the theme "Queering The Bible" in which we will be featuring writers, stories and interpretations from an LGBTQ+ perspective. New episodes every other Friday.

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S2 Episode 1: Angels In America | Part 1

Fri, 6 Oct 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Jeanne and Jennifer kick off the new season with an in-depth discussion of Tony Kushner's stage play "Angels In America" (1991), an entangled story of various characters struggling with identity, faith and mortality in 1980s New York City during the AIDS crisis. This season, our hosts will be taking on the theme "Queering The Bible" in which we will be featuring writers, stories and interpretations from a LGBTQ+ perspective. Stay tuned for Part II, available October 20th, 2023! New episodes every other Friday.

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[Redux] Episode 2: Reading Lenses and the Bible

Sun, 1 Oct 2023 11:00:00 +0000

While we prepare the next season of Wild Olive, please enjoy one of our older episodes you may have missed! Hosts Jeanne Petrolle and Jennifer Bird talk about their backgrounds and how these backgrounds shape the reading lenses that each brings to biblical texts. Conversation goes on to explore the nature of reading "lenses," and how one's "lenses" shape interpretation of any work of literature, and will certainly shape interpretation of the Bible. Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here! Follow us here! Blog Instagram Facebook Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

[Redux] Episode 1: What is Wild Olive?

Fri, 15 Sep 2023 10:00:00 +0000

While we prepare for Season 2, please enjoy one of our earlier episodes. Wild Olive returns for Season 2 in October, 2023! The Wild Olive Podcast brings listeners game-changing conversation about literature, culture, and the Bible. Literature Professor Jeanne Petrolle and Biblical Studies Professor Jennifer Bird talk about the Protestant Bible from a literary perspective, connecting biblical texts with other kinds of texts, and with American culture. In this inaugural episode of Wild Olive, Jeanne and Jennifer introduce the new podcast, explaining what it means to read the Bible as literature, and how the concept of myth can help readers understand some parts of the Bible. Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here! Follow us here! Blog Instagram Facebook Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

S1 Episode 16: Apocalypse Never | Part 2

Fri, 1 Sep 2023 14:00:00 +0000

Jeanne and Jennifer continue their conversation about Revelation to John (Book of Revelation) using Sherman Alexie's poem "Crow Testament" as a means of considering what history, trauma, and political persecution have to do with the idea of apocalypse, as well as how imagined worlds hold their influence over our own. Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here! Follow us here! Blog Instagram Facebook Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

S1 Episode 15: Apocalypse Never | Part 1

Tue, 15 Aug 2023 10:00:00 +0000

Jeanne and Jennifer talk about Revelation to John (Book of Revelation) as political allegory and means of exploring historical trauma, using Sherman Alexie's poem "Crow Testament" as a means of considering what history. trauma, and political persecution have to do with the idea of apocalypse. Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here! Follow us here! Blog Instagram Facebook Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

S1 Episode 14: Conversions | Part 2

Tue, 1 Aug 2023 11:00:00 +0000

-Links to today's material-

Shelly Matthews:

The Perfect Martyr: The Stoning of Stephen and the Construction of Christian Identity (Oxford University, 2010)

The Acts of the Apostles: An Introduction and Study Guide: Taming the Tongues of Fire (T&T Clark, 2017)

Pamela Eisenbaum:

Paul was not a Christian: The Original Message of a Misunderstood Apostle (HarperOne, 2010)

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S1 Episode 13: Conversions | Part 1

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 10:00:00 +0000

In this episode, Jennifer and Jeanne talk about the conversion stories associated with Saul, who became known as Paul, after he went from being a Jewish Roman citizen who arrested followers of "the Way," to a primary messenger for the Way modeled by Jesus, proclaiming the sonship of Jesus to non-Jewish peoples. Your co-hosts also explore a poem by Nick Flynn, a living American poet who took inspiration from the Saul/Paul story, among other things, for his poem "Harbor (conversion)." Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here! Follow us here! Blog Instagram Facebook Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

S1 Episode 12: Humanity of Jesus Redux

podcast@radiantdigital.co (Jeanne Petrolle and Jennifer Bird) — Sat, 1 Jul 2023 10:00:00 +0000

Jeanne and Jennifer revisit Anne Sexton's poem "Jesus Walking," diving deeper into the poem's rhythms, the process of experiencing poetry, and how literary strategies also get used to illuminate the Jesus of the Gospels. Close reading reveals that the Jesus of each Gospel is highly distinct from the Jesus of the other Gospels, with each Gospel emphasizing different ideas about Jesus and even describing the same event using different details. Jennifer suggests that in recognizing the differences between the Gospels, we respect each Gospel more. We don't have to "harmonize" them to honor them. Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here! Follow us here! Blog Instagram Facebook Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

S1 Episode 11: Anne Sexton and the Humanity of Jesus

Thu, 15 Jun 2023 10:00:00 +0000

This week, Jeanne and Jennifer explore the poem "Jesus Walking" by Anne Sexton, which refers to the "Temptation in the Wilderness" scene from Luke Chapter 4. The poem and the Gospel scene engage with concepts of divinity, humanity, temptation, and the idea of mission. The idea of "temptation" can be thought of as anything that diverts or distracts a person away from their mission. Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here! Follow us here! Blog Instagram Facebook Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

S1 Episode 10: Annunciation and Virginity

Thu, 1 Jun 2023 10:00:00 +0000

This week, Jennifer and Jeanne dive deep into "The Annunciation" by Edward Muir. Pairing it with Luke Chapter 1, they discuss conception, purity, motherhood and how other interpretations can affect our understanding of the story. Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here! Follow us here! Blog Instagram Facebook Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

S1 Episode 9: Mrs. Lazarus & The Idea of Resurrection

podcast@radiantdigital.co (Jeanne Petrolle and Jennifer Bird) — Mon, 22 May 2023 14:00:00 +0000

Jeanne and Jennifer 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. Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here! Follow us here! Blog Instagram Facebook Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

S1 Episode 8: Representations of God

podcast@radiantdigital.co (Jeanne Petrolle and Jennifer Bird) — Mon, 1 May 2023 14:00:00 +0000

In this episode, Jeanne and Jennifer share a poem from Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry collection Love Poems to God. Rilke's poem invites readers to think about the problem of representation as it pertains to the representation of God. To think about the "problem of representation" is to think about the gap that exists between the reality of God--whatever that might be--and the portrayal of God in language or in image. The problem of representing God is one of the Bible's fundamental artistic and intellectual challenges. How can anyone represent something that is beyond language, beyond image, beyond representation?

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S1 Episode 7: What's up with all the violence in the Bible?

podcast@radiantdigital.co (Jeanne Petrolle and Jennifer Bird) — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 23:00:00 +0000

Jeanne Petrolle and Jennifer Bird discuss the rampant violence that characterizes so many Bible stories. Using Sherman Alexie's poem "Crow Testament" and American independent film as lenses through which to reconsider the Bible's violence, Jeanne and Jennifer reflect on some of the real-life consequences connected with the location of a collection of violent stories at the center of Christian culture.

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S1 Episode 6: How does Genesis 3 explore gender, power, and sexuality?

podcast@radiantdigital.co (Jeanne Petrolle and Jennifer Bird) — Sat, 1 Apr 2023 14:00:00 +0000

Jeanne and Jennifer discuss gender, power, and sexuality in Genesis 3 and in "Loving You," a poem by Vievee Francis.

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S1 Episode 5: How do the first few chapters of Genesis work poetically?

podcast@radiantdigital.co (Jeanne Petrolle and Jennifer Bird) — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 20:00:00 +0000

Jennifer and Jeanne share observations about rhythm, rhyme, parallelism, and imagery in the first three chapters of Genesis. After exploring how the Hebrew poetry in these Genesis chapters work poetically, the conversation goes on to consider the thematic richness of the story, the myriad ways of understanding the woman in Genesis, and two ways of thinking about genre in connection with the Genesis creation stories. The conversation turns to a brief consideration of Zora Neale Hurston's Harlem Renaissance novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, in which the main character, Janie, functions as an Eve figure.

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S1 Episode 4: How does translation into English affect meaning in biblical stories?

podcast@radiantdigital.co (Jeanne Petrolle and Jennifer Bird) — Wed, 1 Mar 2023 21:00:00 +0000

Sometimes, readers of the Bible underestimate the effects of translation on the meanings that arise from particular Bible stories. In this episode, Jeanne and Jennifer discuss the complexities of translation, exploring a number of specific examples in which changes made in the process of translation from Hebrew to English--or Hebrew to Greek to English--introduce meanings that do not exist in the original language, or erase certain ideas or images that are in the original but are missing from the English translation.

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S1 Episode 3: What does it mean to read the Bible as myth?

podcast@radiantdigital.co (Jeanne Petrolle and Jennifer Bird) — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 02:00:00 +0000

While some understand the term "myth" to mean "something that's not true," that isn't what biblical or literary scholars mean when they use the term. For scholars, "myth" is the literary term for certains kinds of storytelling. Jeanne and Jennifer explore a range of meanings for the term "myth," and discuss how reading the Bible as myth opens up a range of rich, valuable interpretations.

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S1 Episode 2: What reading lenses do we bring to the Bible and to other literatures?

podcast@radiantdigital.co (Jeanne Petrolle and Jennifer Bird) — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 23:00:00 +0000

Hosts Jeanne Petrolle and Jennifer Bird talk about their backgrounds and how these backgrounds shape the reading lenses that each brings to biblical texts. Conversation goes on to explore the nature of reading "lenses," and how one's "lenses" shape interpretation of any work of literature, and will certainly shape interpretation of the Bible.

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S1 Episode 1: What is the Wild Olive podcast and how is it different from other Bible podcasts?

podcast@radiantdigital.co (Jeanne Petrolle) — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 20:00:00 +0000

The Wild Olive Podcast brings listeners game-changing conversation about literature, culture, and the Bible. Literature Professor Jeanne Petrolle and Biblical Studies Professor Jennifer Bird talk about the Protestant Bible from a literary perspective, connecting biblical texts with other kinds of texts, and with American culture. In this inaugural episode of Wild Olive, Jeanne and Jennifer introduce the new podcast, explaining what it means to read the Bible as literature, and how the concept of myth can help readers understand some parts of the Bible.

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