{"podcast":{"title":"Pentimento Podcast","slug":"pentimento-podcast-7849320","podcast_index_feed_id":7849320,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/111d52a0c/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/michael95856","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/45841499/45841499-1778567039734-9d4b08d2b55e2.jpg","author":"Michael Carey","episode_count":7,"summary":"Interviews with people who have had a pentimento experience: that is, when something in their life pushed them to see things differently than they had previously.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-08T06:20:12.558135+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pentimento-podcast-7849320"},"episode":{"title":"Mercy is the DNA of The Universe with Barry Barfield","slug":"mercy-is-the-dna-of-the-universe-with-barry-barfield","published_at":"2026-05-12T16:00:01+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pentimento-podcast-7849320/mercy-is-the-dna-of-the-universe-with-barry-barfield","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pentimento-podcast-7849320","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/michael95856/episodes/Mercy-is-the-DNA-of-The-Universe-with-Barry-Barfield-e3j8d7m","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/111d52a0c/podcast/play/119861942/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-12%2Fcaf4a632-505d-19ae-60fb-fd43211c2636.mp3","summary":"Barry Barfield has spent his adult life following a pull he didn't choose so much as discover — through theology, law, liturgical dance, campus ministry, and decades of quiet service in places most people never think to go. In this conversation, Barry and Mike trace a journey that has wound through Los Angeles, San Francisco, Jerusalem, and 34 years at Gonzaga Preparatory High School. Along the way, Barry reflects on the writers and thinkers who have helped to shape how he sees the world, and on a moment behind a curtain when he looked out at a standing ovation and realized something he hadn't understood before. At the center of it all is a simple idea. Not a rule, not an aspiration. Something older and larger than that. The DNA of the universe.","meta_description":"Barry Barfield has spent his adult life following a pull he didn't choose so much as discover — through theology, law, liturgical dance, campus ministry,…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2944,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/pentimento-podcast-7849320/episodes/mercy-is-the-dna-of-the-universe-with-barry-barfield/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pentimento-podcast-7849320/mercy-is-the-dna-of-the-universe-with-barry-barfield.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}