Kobe: Understanding a City in Mourning
At the beginning of 2020, two months before the monumental national lockdown, one major event in Los Angeles also sent shock waves throughout the entire world. Kobe Byrant, the beloved retired superstar of the Los Angeles Lakers died in a tragic helicopter accident on January 26, 2020, along with his daughter, Gianna Bryant, and seven […]
Grieving Together
On the way to a youth basketball tournament, Kobe Bryant, his daughter, and seven others died when their helicopter crashed into a hillside outside of LA. Kobe’s death was an intensely personal experience to his family and millions of fans around the world coping with the loss of a true sports legend. When this level […]
Pastor D.J. Jenkins
“Oh my gosh…” It was an otherwise normal Sunday in January before the global pandemic—which seems destined to define 2020—had reached our collective consciousness. Church leaders and a handful of volunteers were cleaning up from our weekly service in Studio City – an influential neighborhood in Los Angeles. Then, I got a notification alert on […]
Dr. Joseph Kim
Superstars and superheroes like Kobe Bryant, who are larger than life, are supposed to be untouchable, invincible and indestructible. The tragic and sudden death of the beloved Lakers star along with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others on that fateful January morning shook the world. But even more so, it devastated local Angelenos—diehard Lakers […]