Wild Olive

23/06/2025

Hey Wild Olivers are you new? Then check out to Season 1 Episode 13: Conversions Part 1 where Jeanne and Jennifer discuss Nick Flynn's poem "harbor (the conversion)" A new way to look at Paul's experience on the road to Damascus. Available wherever you listen to your podcasts or go to: https://www.wildolivebibleandculture.org/listen



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22/06/2025

Hey Everybody, the incomparable Reverend Doctor Yolanda Pierce, Dean of Vanderbilt's Divinity School, joins Jeanne on Wild Olive next Friday, July 4! Tune in!

18/06/2025

You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off.
Deuteronomy 28:40 NRSVUE

For more insight into the Bible listen to the Wild Olive Podcast available wherever you listen to your podcast or go to
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Don’t forget to check out our Quoircast partners: The QuoirCast Network Patreon Community, Apostates Anonymous, Messy Spirituality, Ideas Digest, Snarky Faith, Wild Olive, Second Cup With Keith, Deadly Faith, Jonathan Foster, Holy Heretics Podcast, The Church Needs Therapy, Reframing Our Stories, Honoring the Journey Podcast, Spiritual Brew Pub, Bros Bibles & Beer, Faith For The Rest Of Us, Liminal Living, Love Covered Life, I Was A Teenage Fundamentalist, The God Squad, Radical Love Live, Unbelief, High Minds Collective, and The Social Jesus Project

13/06/2025

Hey Wild Olivers are you new? Then check out to Season 1 Episode 11 Anne Sexton and the Humanity of Jesus. Jeanne and Jennifer discuss Anne Sexton's poem "Jesus Walking" which refers to Luke Chapter 4, where Jesus faces temptation in the wilderness. Available wherever you listen to your podcasts or go to: https://www.wildolivebibleandculture.org/listen



Don’t forget to check out our Quoircast partners: The QuoirCast Network Patreon Community, Apostates Anonymous, Messy Spirituality, Ideas Digest, Snarky Faith, Wild Olive, Second Cup With Keith, Deadly Faith, Jonathan Foster, Holy Heretics Podcast, The Church Needs Therapy, Reframing Our Stories, Honoring the Journey Podcast, Spiritual Brew Pub, Bros Bibles & Beer, Faith For The Rest Of Us, Liminal Living, Love Covered Life, I Was A Teenage Fundamentalist, The God Squad, Radical Love Live, Unbelief, High Minds Collective, and The Social Jesus Project

06/06/2025

We're so excited for our summer guest scholar series! Tune in on June 6 to hear Dr. Miranda Zapor Cruz explain why Christian Nationalism is incompatible with the Jesus-Way.



Don’t forget to check out our Quoircast partners: The QuoirCast Network Patreon Community, Apostates Anonymous, Messy Spirituality, Ideas Digest, Snarky Faith, Wild Olive, Second Cup With Keith, Deadly Faith, Jonathan Foster, Holy Heretics Podcast, The Church Needs Therapy, Reframing Our Stories, Honoring the Journey Podcast, Spiritual Brew Pub, Bros Bibles & Beer, Faith For The Rest Of Us, Liminal Living, Love Covered Life, I Was A Teenage Fundamentalist, The God Squad, Radical Love Live, Unbelief, High Minds Collective, and The Social Jesus Project

13/05/2025

Hey Wild Olivers are you new? Then check out Season 1 Episode 10 Annunciation and Virginity. Jennifer and Jeanne discuss Edwin Muir's poem The Annunciation. Tune in to the podcast for some new ideas. Available wherever you listen to your podcasts or go to: https://www.wildolivebibleandculture.org/listen



Don’t forget to check out our Quoircast partners: The QuoirCast Network Patreon Community, Apostates Anonymous, Messy Spirituality, Ideas Digest, Snarky Faith, Wild Olive, Second Cup With Keith, Deadly Faith, Jonathan Foster, Holy Heretics Podcast, The Church Needs Therapy, Reframing Our Stories, Honoring the Journey Podcast, Spiritual Brew Pub, Bros Bibles & Beer, Faith For The Rest Of Us, Liminal Living, Love Covered Life, I Was A Teenage Fundamentalist, The God Squad, Radical Love Live, Unbelief, High Minds Collective, and The Social Jesus Project

09/05/2025

but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow so that the poor of your people may eat, and what they leave the wild animals may eat. You shall do the same with your vineyard and with your olive orchard.
Exodus 23:11

For more insight into the Bible listen to the Wild Olive Podcast available wherever you listen to your podcast or go to
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Don’t forget to check out our Quoircast partners: The QuoirCast Network Patreon Community, Apostates Anonymous, Messy Spirituality, Ideas Digest, Snarky Faith, Wild Olive, Second Cup With Keith, Deadly Faith, Jonathan Foster, Holy Heretics Podcast, The Church Needs Therapy, Reframing Our Stories, Honoring the Journey Podcast, Spiritual Brew Pub, Bros Bibles & Beer, Faith For The Rest Of Us, Liminal Living, Love Covered Life, I Was A Teenage Fundamentalist, The God Squad, Radical Love Live, Unbelief, High Minds Collective, and The Social Jesus Project

29/04/2025

Hey Wild Olivers check out Jeanne's article on Patheos titled 'Barbie, The Bible, And The Book Of Ruth.' It is sure to provide food for conversation:
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildolive/2023/08/barbie-the-bible-and-the-book-of-ruth/



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Whether or not you hold the Bible sacred, the Bible impacts your life because its stories shape American literature and culture profoundly. That’s why I Greta Gerwig's Barbie makes use of Bible stories from Genesis and Book of Ruth.

23/04/2025

Hey Wild Olivers are you new? Then check out to Season 1 Episode 9 Mrs. Lazarus & The Idea of Resurrection. Ever wonder what Mrs. Lazurus thought when she saw her husband walk out of that tomb? Tune in to the podcast for some ideas. Available wherever you listen to your podcasts or go to: https://www.wildolivebibleandculture.org/listen



Don’t forget to check out our Quoircast partners: The QuoirCast Network Patreon Community, Apostates Anonymous, Messy Spirituality, Ideas Digest, Snarky Faith, Wild Olive, Second Cup With Keith, Deadly Faith, Jonathan Foster, Holy Heretics Podcast, The Church Needs Therapy, Reframing Our Stories, Honoring the Journey Podcast, Spiritual Brew Pub, Bros Bibles & Beer, Faith For The Rest Of Us, Liminal Living, Love Covered Life, I Was A Teenage Fundamentalist, The God Squad, Radical Love Live, Unbelief, High Minds Collective, and The Social Jesus Project

17/04/2025

His shoots shall spread out; his beauty shall be like the olive tree and his fragrance like that of Lebanon.
Hosea 14:6 NRSVUE

For more insight into the Bible listen to the Wild Olive Podcast available wherever you listen to your podcast or go to
https://www.wildolivebibleandculture.org/listen



Don’t forget to check out our Quoircast partners: The QuoirCast Network Patreon Community, Apostates Anonymous, Messy Spirituality, Ideas Digest, Snarky Faith, Wild Olive, Second Cup With Keith, Deadly Faith, Jonathan Foster, Holy Heretics Podcast, The Church Needs Therapy, Reframing Our Stories, Honoring the Journey Podcast, Spiritual Brew Pub, Bros Bibles & Beer, Faith For The Rest Of Us, Liminal Living, Love Covered Life, I Was A Teenage Fundamentalist, The God Squad, Radical Love Live, Unbelief, High Minds Collective, and The Social Jesus Project

11/04/2025

Hey Wild Olivers be sure to check out Jeanne's article at Patheos titled 'Hagar, Single Mother's Bible Hero'. Sure to be inspirational.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildolive/2024/03/hagar-single-mothers-bible-hero/



Don’t forget to check out our Quoircast partners: The QuoirCast Network Patreon Community, Apostates Anonymous, Messy Spirituality, Ideas Digest, Snarky Faith, Wild Olive, Second Cup With Keith, Deadly Faith, Jonathan Foster, Holy Heretics Podcast, The Church Needs Therapy, Reframing Our Stories, Honoring the Journey Podcast, Spiritual Brew Pub, Bros Bibles & Beer, Faith For The Rest Of Us, Liminal Living, Love Covered Life, I Was A Teenage Fundamentalist, The God Squad, Radical Love Live, Unbelief, High Minds Collective, and The Social Jesus Project

In Genesis 21:19, Hagar, the Egyptian woman enslaved by Abraham and Sarah, realizes that God sees, hears, and cares for her. Used, abused, and cast out by