The Infinite Challenge
Have you ever challenged yourself to read one of those books that everyone says is a ‘must-read’? Maybe you’ve been told that tackling The Brothers Karamazov, or War and Peace, or the Bible from cover to cover, will change your life. I must admit that I’m usually not one to take on such challenges, but [...]
5 Best Breakup Albums
People often ask me what kind of music I like. I’ve found that the most true, all-encompassing answer to them is this: “Music you would probably call ‘depressing.”’ Although I don’t find it depressing. I actually enjoy a healthy portion of melancholy in my headphones. But it wasn’t until I got my heart broke [...]
JusTea: brewing social justice in Kenya
JusTea is an organization that aims to bring social justice to Kenyan tea farmers by providing them with small tea processing centres so that they are able to process their own tea. Justea then buys their tea directly, cutting out the middleman so that farmers are able to make a living wage. We sat down with Justea’s founder [...]
Interview with Dan Bremnes
Dan Bremnes is an award-winning BC based worship leader who has toured all over the world. Converge caught up with him to ask about where he came from, and how he likes touring across Canada. Hey Dan! So… tell us a little about yourself? Hey! Well I was born in Kamloops B.C. and lived there [...]
Three Reasons to Love Daft Punk
After eight years of studio album hibernation, French musicians Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo of the famed robotic duo Daft Punk have released their greatly anticipated Random Access Memories (R.A.M). Already touted as a major success — their first single, “Get Lucky,” sits atop the charts in the U.K. and several other countries — [...]
How to Get Happy
Writer-director Brad Wise talks about what’s important, and what’s not, for a Christian who makes movies. It’s not like I was a kid dreaming of making movies one day. I never really set out to do any of this stuff. It just kind of happened. Brad Wise has the shell-shocked look of a guy who just [...]
10 Surefire Techniques for Winning a Girl’s Heart
Hello, gentlemen. Let us begin with a statement of the obvious: Winning a girl’s heart can be a difficult thing. If you have taste, the girl you’re currently in love with is probably much more attractive, talented, and well-adjusted than you are. If you have any realistic perspective on the mathematics surrounding your chances to [...]
Everybody Watch! // BlimeyCow
Josh Taylor is 24 years old. He’s married. He works with his dad creating patent drawings. He lives in Hermitage, Tennessee, a Nashville suburb where was raised and homeschooled with his brother, Jordan. Then, a few years ago, things got weird. I’m past the point where I’m stressed about it; I’m just kind of enjoying [...]
Q&A with Jesus Culture Director Banning Liebscher
This July, Jesus Culture — a worship driven ministry that is gaining a reputation as sort of the Hillsongs of America — is putting on a conference in LA. We got to chat with Jesus Culture director Banning Liebscher about the origins of JC, the conference, and what it means to be a “revivalist” [...]
Recap: Bobette Buster at Q Los Angeles 2013
The gold that everyone in Hollywood was looking to find was story. The way that you arrive in New York City expecting to be mugged, or in Bogota expecting to be kidnapped and held for ransom, I arrive in Los Angeles fully prepared to feel inferior. That’s why the stories I’ve heard of people (from Lana [...]
