The Rooted Path™

🌿 The Beyond 400™ Reflection This one has a voice now. The audio companion sits at the top of this post. Same reflection you are about to read, now something you can carry into the rest of your day. The drive between meetings. The walk when the building is finally quiet. The dishes after everyone has gone home. Press play and let it come with you. Audio is not a convenience here. It is a formatio...

🌿 The Rooted Path Reflection Series The field of faith-based community development is not empty. It is not inactive. It is not short on theology, compassion, or creativity. And yet a structural problem persists that the field has not yet fully named. The field has produced transformation faster than it has produced infrastructure capable of preserving transformation across time. This companion au...

🌿 The Beyond 400 Reflection The audio companion to The Door Is Open is live. Same argument you read this morning, now in your ears for the commute, the walk, the dishes. The viral thread is not the destination. The thread is the diagnosis. Listen on Substack, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. Stay Rooted, my Friends. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or...

Most of us can explain Kwanzaa in detail. Ask the same person to explain Juneteenth and the explanation usually stalls halfway through. That stall is not ignorance. It is a people carrying a history they were never given the architecture to hold. This episode walks through what actually happened on June 19, 1865, what was built in the years after and what was taken, and offers a formation practice...

Not everyone has time to sit and read. This audio companion was created for the people who are always on the move. If you are on a long drive to another city, sitting in traffic, walking the neighborhood, or just need something running in the background while you work, this is for you. Everything you hear comes directly from published writing. No new claims. No performance. Just the ideas in a for...

Not everyone has time to sit and read. This audio companion was created for the people who are always on the move. If you are on a long drive to another city, sitting in traffic, walking the neighborhood, or just need something running in the background while you work, this is for you. Everything you hear comes directly from published writing. No new claims. No performance. Just the ideas in a for...

Not everyone has time to sit and read. This audio companion was created for the people who are always on the move. If you are on a long drive to another city, sitting in traffic, walking the neighborhood, or just need something running in the background while you work, this is for you. Everything you hear comes directly from published writing. No new claims. No performance. Just the ideas in a for...

Most congregations don’t struggle with vision. They struggle with what happens after the moment passes. What is seen in the room is real. But what is not held is eventually lost. Episode 3 walked through that gap in long form. This is the 5 minute companion for the leaders who need the framework at a glance. The wall held the moment. It could not hold the work. Now the work has a way to be held. I...

🌿 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐡™ 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐝 A. Damian Curd | Kingdom Assets LLC There is a room you already know. A church basement on a Saturday morning. Butcher paper taped along the cinder block wall. A box of Sharpies passed around. The smell of industrial coffee and stale donuts. People writing what they could offer. Skills. Talents. Things they had been holding for years that...

Episode 2 is the structural argument that sits beneath every other episode in this series. For forty years, the faith-based community development field has built toward something it never fully named. Philosophy. Methodology. Formation Scholarship. Asset Stewardship. Leadership Ecosystem. Each layer necessary. Each layer produced what the next generation could build on. None of them, alone or toge...

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. The Rooted Path Global This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, v...