{"podcast":{"title":"Exploring My Strange Bible","slug":"exploring-my-strange-bible-58832","podcast_index_feed_id":58832,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/zovPCGLI","website_url":"https://bibleproject.com","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/12522ed7-c479-4b3f-985a-2053af801cb1/7a882110-a6d5-406f-8a5e-fa7681cf73af/3000x3000/exploringmystrangebible-3000x3000-20-1.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"BibleProject","episode_count":121,"summary":"Welcome to Exploring My Strange Bible by Tim Mackie, lead theologian and co-founder of BibleProject.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/exploring-my-strange-bible-58832"},"episode":{"title":"A Severe Mercy (Remastered)","slug":"a-severe-mercy-remastered","published_at":"2025-12-19T00:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/exploring-my-strange-bible-58832/a-severe-mercy-remastered","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/exploring-my-strange-bible-58832","url":"https://bibleproject.com","audio_url":"https://afp-597195-injected.calisto.simplecastaudio.com/e5d85dd4-a616-4860-846c-fc4d57e11252/episodes/1db3ce02-9514-449b-937d-501b33c0f798/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=e5d85dd4-a616-4860-846c-fc4d57e11252&awEpisodeId=1db3ce02-9514-449b-937d-501b33c0f798&feed=zovPCGLI","summary":"The Amazing Jonah E3 — After he is thrown into the sea and swallowed by a fish, Jonah utters a strange and beautifully intricate poem from inside the fish’s belly. He is in a moment of crisis that is actually God’s way of bringing him to the end of himself. How can Jonah’s experience invite us to think about the moments of crisis in our own lives? In this message, Tim teaches from chapter 2 on this heavily ironic yet powerful moment in Jonah’s story. This message was given on August 18, 2013, at Door of Hope Church in Portland, Oregon.","meta_description":"The Amazing Jonah E3 — After he is thrown into the sea and swallowed by a fish, Jonah utters a strange and beautifully intricate poem from inside the fish…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2764,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/exploring-my-strange-bible-58832/episodes/a-severe-mercy-remastered/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/exploring-my-strange-bible-58832/a-severe-mercy-remastered.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}