Why are we running, and who decided what winning looks like?
The Race to Win is a critical, pastoral re-examination of one of the most familiar stories ever told — Aesop's Tortoise and the Hare. By Bishop Glake Hill Jr., rooted in the Black Church tradition and shaped by years of pastoring, teaching, and watching people exhaust themselves chasing finish lines that keep moving.
Most of us were taught the fable's "moral" before we could question it: slow and steady wins the race. Bishop Hill takes the story seriously enough to ask the questions the fable never invited us to ask. Why was speed the standard? Who decided that? Why did the tortoise agree to race in the first place — and what did it cost him? Was the fox truly a fair judge? Who set the starting line, and who chose where it would end? Were the watching animals spectators, or were they complicit?
This book is built around ten unflinching questions that excavate the assumptions hidden inside the story — and inside every race we've been shaped to run. The "gold standards" we never agreed to. The competitions that promise worth and deliver exhaustion. The systems that reward conformity over clarity. The victories that leave us emptier than we started.
The Race to Win is for anyone tired of running someone else's race, anyone who has won and wondered why it didn't feel like winning, anyone who suspects that the way we measure worth is broken — and is ready to do the harder, holier work of refusing the forest's terms.
This isn't a book about how to run faster. It's a book about whether we should be running at all.
Each chapter ends with discussion questions, making this an ideal read for personal study, small groups, leadership cohorts, and church discipleship.
What you'll wrestle with:
- Why "speed" became the gold standard — and what that arbitrary choice has cost the rest of us
- Whether the tortoise's victory was really a victory, or just defiance dressed in slow clothing
- How spectators become participants when they sit silently with unfair conditions
- Why no judge is ever neutral — and what that means for the races we agree to enter
- Whether a win has to require someone else's loss
- How the outcome of a race almost never answers the question the race was supposed to settle
- What it would take to build different forests — communities where worth isn't measured by who finishes first
Perfect for:
- Pastors, teachers, and ministry leaders rethinking how they form people
- Believers exhausted by performance-based identity and the gospel of self-improvement
- Small groups, men's and women's ministries, leadership cohorts, and discipleship classes
- Anyone who has crossed a finish line and wondered why it didn't feel like enough
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Whichever format speaks to you — let's run free, together.
A Glake Hill Ministries / 3P Studios production.
