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Jeanne talks with Andy Peterson and Eric Levy about Samuel Beckett's "Waiting For Godot". Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here!   Follow us here! Blog Instagram Facebook   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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

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 Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here!   Follow us here! Blog Instagram Facebook  ...

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". Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here!   Follow us here! Blog Instagram Facebook   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use...

Jeanne talks with Courtney Hitson! Together they discuss their spiritual origins, atheism and the work of Flannery O'Connor.  Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here!   Follow us here! Blog Instagram Facebook   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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/ Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here!   Follow us here! Blog Inst...

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

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/ Help support Wild Olive...

Jennifer is back! --And joining in on this season's conversation of dreams in the bible! Joining us is citizen scholar, Luke Moss. Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here!   Follow us here! Blog Instagram Facebook   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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 Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here!   Follow us here! Blog Instagram Facebook   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of person...

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. Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here!   Follow us here! Blog Instagram Facebook   Hosted by Simplecast,...

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! Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here!   Follow us here! Blog Instagram Facebook   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz...

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.  Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here!   Follow us here! Blog Instagram Facebook   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company....

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.  Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here!   Follow us here! Blog Instagram Facebook   Hosted by Simplecast, a...

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 disc...

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. Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here!   Follow us here! Blog Instagram Facebook   Hosted by S...

This week, Jeanne and Jennifer discuss the biblical concept of staying unmarried, celibate or widowed as outlined by Paul in 1 Corinthians. Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here!   Follow us here! Blog Instagram Facebook   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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).  Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here!   Follow us here! Blog Instagram Facebook   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz....

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

Jennifer is back! And this week, she and Jeanne discuss the significance and impact of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's "The Woman's Bible" (1895). Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here!   Follow us here! Blog Instagram Facebook   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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. Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here!   Follow us here! Blog Instagram Face...

Jeanne goes solo to talk on biblical marriages within the bible, specifically those found in the Book of Esther. Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here!   Follow us here! Blog Instagram Facebook   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Jeanne interviews former student, Luke Moss. Together they discuss Luke's religious upbringing, his philosophical beliefs, concepts of "topos" and Darwinism. Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here!   Follow us here! Blog Instagram Facebook   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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

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.  Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here!   Follow us here! Blog Instagram Facebook   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.c...