In this reflection on Colossians 3:23, Robert Covolo challenges common assumptions about vocation and explores how the Gospel transforms our understanding of work. Whether your work feels exciting, repetitive, or somewhere in between, discover how placing it within God's larger story can renew its purpose and significance.
Check out our round-up of our latest Reimagining Work event centered on education in LA!
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.
In this reflection on Colossians 3:23, Robert Covolo challenges common assumptions about vocation and explores how the Gospel transforms our understanding of work. Whether your work feels exciting, repetitive, or somewhere in between, discover how placing it within God's larger story can renew its purpose and significance.
As we look forward to our Annual Faith + Work Conference: Meaningful Work in an Age of Disruption this Saturday, April 2, 2022, the Center for Faith + Work Los Angeles is proud to present Part 2 of the conversation with one of our thoughtful speakers, Michaela O'Donnell. Michaela is Executive Director of the Max De Pree Center for Leadership at Fuller Seminary and will be talking with our own Robert Covolo, Director of Vocational Discipleship at CFWLA.
In this episode, they discuss the way work forms us + seeing the fruit in our work, the importance of relationships and people in all types of work, the problem of "pursuing our passions" and the role ambiguity plays in vocation.
As we anticipate our Annual Faith + Work Conference: Meaningful Work in an Age of Disruption on April 2, 2022, the Center for Faith + Work Los Angeles is proud to present this two-part conversation with one of our esteemed speakers, Michaela O'Donnell. Michaela is Executive Director of the Max De Pree Center for Leadership at Fuller Seminary and will talking with our own Robert Covolo, Director of Vocational Discipleship at CFWLA.
In this episode, they discuss the road that brought Michaela where she is today—from her inclination to entrepreneurship, to the challenges she's faced in her career. Michaela and Robert will also explore the need for creativity, flexibility and lamentation in all believers' vocations.
As a follow-up to his three-part blog series, Robert Covolo sits down for a conversation with Matthew Kaemingk & Cory B. Wilson, authors of the new book Work and Worship: Reconnecting Our Labor and Liturgy. In this episode, they discuss how and why the book came together, the intersection of work + worship, what we can learn from the Old Testament and the early church on the relationship between work + worship, and how to best respond in our lives today.
In the inaugural episode of the CFWLA Podcast, Executive Director Steve Lindsey and Communications Director Gage Arnold sit down for a conversation on the hopes for this podcast, the theology that undergirds the conversations, and their own reflections on how this framework shapes all they do in their own work.
