The Very Good Podcast

In this episode, Jody Stephenson invites Atlanta Westside member, and founder of the nonprofit PAWKids, LaTonya Gates, and Westside staff members Abrm McQuarters and Walter Henegar, to discuss the killing of Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick, GA on February 23. Ahmaud was 25 years old, unarmed, and he was shot and killed while running through a neighborhood on a Sunday afternoon.

In this episode, Atlanta Westside members Jody Stephenson and Carter Crutchfield opine on prayer. In addition to a riveting story from Carter about how a near-death experience transformed his prayer life, this episode is full of interesting points and counterpoints about the 'how, when, why, and where' to pray. 

In this episode, Westside member Jody Stephenson hosts a round table on staff culture alongside a few notable Westside folks. As you will hear, culture rooted in the gospel applies to any work environment. From a church, to a brewery, to a start up.

In this episode, former Westside staffer Claude Ball interview Westside member David Dwyer about church, race, and their experience growing up in Atlanta. They explore the effects of Jim Crow and the way race is being weaponized in our current political discourse. Claude and David also try to demonstrate how we can be socially conscious and thoughtful to our African American brothers and sisters in a predominantly white church. 

Atlanta Westside member Jody Stephenson and former Westside staffer Claude Ball dig deep into the relationship between race and the church. Why does our church look the way it does? How do social and racial norms affect our culture and how people worship God? How can we effectively change the way we think about our community and race? 

In this episode, Westside member and entrepreneur Jody Stephenson sat down with Atlanta Westside’s Executive Director, John Gunter, to talk about what it means to be single in your 20s 30s and 40s, single while living abroad, singleness as it relates to career and identity, relationships, breakups—about as many different subtopics on singleness as you can imagine. Enjoy the show!

In this episode, Presbyteri-what?, Atlanta Westside’s Sr. Pastor, Walter Henager, sits down with Jim Wert, a ruling elder at InTown Community Church in Atlanta — and, if this is a thing, an expert on presbyterianism — to discuss what it means to be part of a Presbyterian or PCA church. Walter and Jim also walk us through how the Presbyterian Church fits within the global Church framework. We get a bit heady in this episode, but that’s true to form for Presbyterians - am I right?

Presenting 'The Very Good Podcast' from Atlanta Westside Presbyterian Church!  In our first episode, dive into the history of Atlanta Westside with Senior Pastor Walter Henegar, Director of Discipleship Anne Henegar, and guest interviewer (and Westside member) Julia Reynolds.