What an incredible morning at Reimagining Work Vol.14: The People Side of Work

On Saturday, February 7, we gathered for our Reimagining Work event, The People Side of Work. It was a meaningful and intimate morning filled with wisdom, encouragement, and practical insight on cultivating workplace cultures that honor Christ and care well for the people we lead, manage, and collaborate with.

This blog post explores George Herbert’s poem The Elixir as a profound theology of faith and work, revealing how ordinary labor becomes holy when done in love and obedience to God. Drawing on Herbert’s metaphor of alchemy, it argues that intention—not status, visibility, or outcome—is what transforms work from drudgery into worship. In a culture driven by achievement and recognition, the post invites readers to recover a vision of vocation where every task, however small, is infused with divine significance when done “for Him.”

Here, Robert Covolo shares how Van Gogh’s paintings of workers reveal a profound spiritual insight: the holiness of ordinary labor. Unlike traditional religious art that separated the sacred from the secular, Van Gogh portrayed everyday tasks—harvesting, binding sheaves—as acts filled with dignity and sacred value. This vision echoes Martin Luther’s Reformation teaching that all vocations, even the humblest, can glorify God when done with faithfulness.