The Rooted Path™

A. Damian Curd

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The Rooted Path™ is a nine-step congregational FORMATION framework for pastors, denominational leaders, and funders who believe the church is not broken. It is unformed. Every episode moves in sequence. Because sequence is not cosmetic. Sequence is FORMATION. rootedpathglobal.com adamiancurd.substack.com

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The Four Rooms

Ryan Conwell was overlooked coming out of Pike High School in Indianapolis. Four schools in four years later, he was the 37th pick in the NBA Draft. Some call that instability. A. Damian Curd sees four rooms, each asking something new of a gift that was there all along. This explainer walks through his Reflection “The Making Comes Before the Moment”: why sports leagues are built to find the few while the church is called to form everyone, what the historic Black church already proved about FORMATION at scale, and the three things any network needs to support it: a shared framework, local roots, and shared measures that count what lasts. Read the full Reflection: https://adamiancurd.substack.com/p/e6d This episode is an AI-generated audio explainer based on the written Reflection by A. Damian Curd. The Rooted Path Global™ | rootedpathglobal.com Get full access to The Rooted Path Global™ at adamiancurd.substack.com/subscribe
Aug 20

What If the Flood Revealed an Asset? — the Video Explainer

🌿 The Rooted Path™ Reflection A. Damian Curd | Kingdom Assets LLC A quick note, since this is new. Most of what comes through here has been words on a page, or a voice you could carry with you while you did something else. This is different, and it will be different again for a few pieces going forward. Some arguments live in language. Some live in a picture, a distance, a gap you have to watch to actually understand. When a piece needs to be seen rather than heard, it will come as an explainer like this one, full attention, not background noise. You will know it by the format, not just the label. This piece needed to be seen for one reason. DigIndy and the Carmel quarry sit next to each other in this explainer the way they never do in a sentence, thirty nine years against one storm, engineered against accidental, and the comparison only lands when you watch the two columns hold still on the screen at the same time. Read as prose, that gap compresses into an idea. Watched, it becomes a question you can’t easily look away from, why did the region need to get lucky at all. Video is not a convenience here. It is a formation decision, made differently than an audio companion. The whole argument is about what gets formed on purpose versus what gets revealed by accident, and a viewer watching two paths to the same infrastructure sit side by side, one built across four decades and one carved out in a single night, feels the imbalance in a way a paragraph can describe but not quite deliver. Give this one your full attention. Not something to have on in the background while you fold laundry. Watch it the way you’d watch a map being drawn. Stay Rooted, my Friends. A. Damian CurdFounder, Kingdom Assets LLC🌿 Where Faith Is Formed Before It Moves rootedpathglobal.com Get full access to The Rooted Path Global™ at adamiancurd.substack.com/subscribe
Aug 7

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐑𝐮𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐬 —

🌿 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝟒𝟎𝟎™ 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧A. Damian Curd | Kingdom Assets LLC I wrote about a graphic that stopped me cold at one line: Aksum adopted Christianity roughly forty to fifty years before Rome did. On the page, that gap is a sentence. On screen, it’s two dates sitting side by side, and watching them sit there does something a sentence can’t. This is the video companion to The Erasure Machine Runs on Dates Nobody Checks, eight civilizations, four books of scripture, and a map most people have never actually looked at. A quick note, since this is new. Most of what comes through here has been words on a page, or a voice you could carry with you while you did something else. This is different, and it will be different again for a few pieces going forward. Some arguments live in language. Some live in a picture, a distance, a gap you have to watch to actually understand. When a piece needs to be seen rather than heard, it will come as an explainer like this one, full attention, not background noise. You will know it by the format, not just the label. Video is not a convenience here. It is a formation decision, made differently than an audio companion. You have to watch the dates stack up, watch the map fill in one civilization at a time, to feel how much active work it takes to keep all of this out of a room. Give it the full runtime. Not something for the background while you do something else, the kind of attention you’d give if someone handed you the map and said look closer. Stay Rooted, my Friends. A. Damian CurdFounder, Kingdom Assets LLC🌿 Where Faith Is Formed Before It Moves rootedpathglobal.com Get full access to The Rooted Path Global™ at adamiancurd.substack.com/subscribe
Jul 30

Two People in Different Rooms Heard the Same Thing — the Video Explainer

🌿 The Rooted Path™ Reflection A quick note on why this one needs to be watched. The sixty two point canyon between two developers using the identical tool. The pillars holding faith, culture, and community up while the roots do the real work underground. The arrangement itself is the argument here, not just the numbers inside it. Reading it is not the same as watching the gap open. Video is not a convenience here. It is a formation decision, made differently than an audio companion. This piece measures a canyon. You have to see it to feel how wide it actually runs. Give it the full runtime. Not something playing in the background while you do something else. The gap only lands if you watch it open. Stay Rooted, my Friends. A. Damian CurdFounder, Kingdom Assets LLC🌿 Where Faith Is Formed Before It Moves rootedpathglobal.com Get full access to The Rooted Path Global™ at adamiancurd.substack.com/subscribe
Jul 24

𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐩𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐓𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 — 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞

🌿 𝐁𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝟒𝟎𝟎™ 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧A. Damian Curd | Kingdom Assets LLC Some arguments live in language. This one lives in a picture. Four maps. Same census data. Four different lenses. The pattern tightens with every frame, and once you see it, you cannot unsee it: the people never move, but the lines move around them. That gap between what a community holds and what it can do with what it holds is not something you can describe in a paragraph. You have to watch it appear, layer by layer, until the missing infrastructure names itself. This is not about race. This is not about politics. This is about structure, about who was formed enough to be at the table when the lines were drawn, and who showed up mobilized but unformed, every cycle, watching the pen move without them. A quick note, since this is new. Most of what comes through here has been words on a page, or a voice you could carry with you while you did something else. This is different, and it will be different again for a few pieces going forward. Some arguments live in language. Some live in a picture, a distance, a gap you have to watch to actually understand. When a piece needs to be seen rather than heard, it will come as an explainer like this one, full attention, not background noise. You will know it by the format, not just the label. Video is not a convenience here. It is a formation decision, made differently than an audio companion. The maps have to be seen side by side. The shift has to be watched. The question at the end has to land after eight minutes of evidence, not after a summary. Give it the full runtime. Sit with it. Then ask yourself the question the piece closes with. Stay Rooted, my Friends. A. Damian CurdFounder, Kingdom Assets LLC🌿 Where Faith Is Formed Before It Moves rootedpathglobal.com Get full access to The Rooted Path Global™ at adamiancurd.substack.com/subscribe
Jul 20

What Fifty Years of Patience Built — the Video Explainer

🌿 The Rooted Path™ Reflection A quick note, since this is new. Most of what comes through here has been words on a page, or a voice you could carry with you while you did something else. This is different, and it will be different again for a few pieces going forward. Some arguments live in language. Some live in a picture, a distance, a gap you have to watch to actually understand. When a piece needs to be seen rather than heard, it will come as an explainer like this one, full attention, not background noise. You will know it by the format, not just the label. This piece needed to be seen for one reason. The argument is a distance, not a sentence, fifty years laid end to end, from a single spiritual vision in 1975 to seats at the table in 2025. Read as prose, that distance compresses. Watched, mapped, walked through in order, it does not. You feel how long patience actually takes, and that feeling is the entire point. Video is not a convenience here. It is a formation decision. The whole thesis is that durability takes decades of quiet, unglamorous work before it ever becomes visible as mission, and a video that lets you watch that timeline stretch out in front of you makes that truth land in a way a paragraph cannot. One thing I will say plainly, since I know some of you have asked. This piece names the historical record, Loren Cunningham, Bill Bright, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Lance Wallnau, because that record is already public and already settled. What it does not do, on purpose, is name a single living figure. Not because the pattern isn't led by real people right now, it is, but because the pattern itself is the point, not any one person's biography while it's still being actively contested. The same mechanism that took fifty years to move a movement from a spiritual idea to cabinet seats is the same mechanism available to any underformed, unmobilized generation, anywhere. I think about that in terms of a continent whose average age is nineteen. I think about it in terms of what love, given the same fifty years and the same discipline, could build instead. Give this one your full attention. Not something to have on in the background while you fold laundry. Watch it the way you’d watch a map being drawn. Stay Rooted, my Friends. A. Damian CurdFounder, Kingdom Assets LLC🌿 Where Faith Is Formed Before It Moves Get full access to The Rooted Path Global™ at adamiancurd.substack.com/subscribe
Jul 16

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐎𝐧 — the Video Explainer

🌿 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝟒𝟎𝟎™ 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 A. Damian Curd | Kingdom Assets LLC This one asks to be seen, not just heard. The image above isn’t decoration. Four runners at the starting line, three of them already behind before the gun goes off. That picture is the argument. You could read the words alone and follow the logic. But watch the gap between where each runner stands, and the argument stops being an idea and becomes something you can see happening in real time. A quick note, since this is new. Most of what comes through here has been words on a page, or a voice you could carry with you while you did something else. This is different, and it will be different again for a few pieces going forward. Some arguments live in language. Some live in a picture, a distance, a gap you have to watch to actually understand. When a piece needs to be seen rather than heard, it will come as an explainer like this one, full attention, not background noise. You will know it by the format, not just the label. Video is not a convenience here. It is a formation decision, made differently than an audio companion. This one asks for your eyes on purpose, because the distance between the starting blocks is the whole point, and distance is a visual fact before it is anything else. Give it the full runtime and your attention, not your periphery. Stay Rooted, my Friends. A. Damian CurdFounder, Kingdom Assets LLC 🌿 Where Faith Is Formed Before It Moves Get full access to The Rooted Path Global™ at adamiancurd.substack.com/subscribe
Jul 14

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐝 — now on audio

🌿 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐄𝐘𝐎𝐍𝐃 𝟒𝟎𝟎™ 𝐑𝐄𝐅𝐋𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 A. Damian Curd | Kingdom Assets LLC This one has a voice now. The video companion sits at the top of this post. Something you can carry into the rest of your day. The commute. The walk when the house is finally quiet. The stretch of work that doesn’t need your eyes, just your attention. Press play and let it come with you. Audio is not a convenience here. It is a formation decision. This piece asks something that does not resolve in a skim: how do we hold two entirely different forms of resistance as equally real, without ranking one above the other. That kind of question is not absorbed by reading fast. It is absorbed by sitting with it long enough to let it land, and listening is one of the few ways left to do that while the day keeps moving. Listen now. Read it when you can. Either way, the point is the same: both were real, both were costly, both were resistance. rootedpathglobal.com Get full access to The Rooted Path Global™ at adamiancurd.substack.com/subscribe

The Rooted Path™ is a nine-step congregational FORMATION framework for pastors, denominational leaders, and funders who believe the church is not broken. It is unformed. Every episode moves in sequence. Because sequence is not cosmetic. Sequence is FORMATION. rootedpathglobal.com adamiancurd.substack.com

Creator

A. Damian Curd
Years Active

2026
Episodes

19
Rating

Clean
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