Game-Changing Conversation about Literature, Culture, and the Bible
The Wild Olive Institute for the Study of Bible and Culture brings readers with varied backgrounds together to consider biblical texts from a literary perspective, free from religious agendas, free from efforts to control interpretation.
Religious Studies Professor Jennifer Grace Bird, Ph.D. and Literature Professor Jeanne Petrolle, Ph.D. created the Wild Olive Institute as a destination for curious readers. Bible readers can learn more about the Bible’s influence on today’s literary scene.
Countless modern and contemporary authors draw from the Bible’s literary well. But not everyone who enjoys literature reads the Bible, because not everyone wants to deal with the religious institutions where biblical texts are most commonly read. At Wild Olive, we create space for readers who want full freedom of thought. Whether you are religious, spiritual-but-not-religious, secularist, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, or something else, we welcome your conversation here. Post-evangelicals especially will find kindred spirits here.
