Could slowing down help us both recharge and build endurance?

The author reflects on how learning to run slowly—counterintuitive but essential for endurance and long-term improvement—offers a powerful metaphor for life and work. Just as most runs should be at an easy pace to build strength and efficiency, embracing slower rhythms in our careers or ministries can sustain us, not just make us more productive. The piece challenges the idealist mindset that equates constant busyness with virtue, instead advocating for a “conversational pace” that honors rest as inherently valuable.

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This article was published in Faith & Leadership on August 20, 2024, and was written by Emily Lund.