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I’ve made a new website.

That sounds more straightforward than it has actually been.

I’ve been thinking for a long time about moving away from Wix and starting again somewhere else. Some of that was practical. The old site began as a fairly simple blog, An ADHD Journey, and the blog will continue here. But I wanted the site to have room for a bit more than that: writing, workshop information, worship resources, recordings, and some of the different things I seem to keep circling back to.

The new site is called Faithfully Awkward, which feels about right.

A lot of what I write about begins with the awkward bit. The question that does not quite go away. The thing in church life that looks simple until we start asking questions. The conversation about disability, Neurodiversity, digital ministry, worship, justice, gaming, photography, or ordinary church life that turns out to be more connected than it first appeared.

I’m hoping this site will give some of that a clearer home.

It is still a personal site, and An ADHD Journey will still be the blog. Some of the posts will be directly about ADHD and faith. Others will probably wander through theology, church, technology, ethics, worship, games, or whatever else my brain has decided to connect that week.

But I’m also hoping the site will make it easier for people to see the kind of work I can offer. At the moment I’m starting to do some freelance work around disability theology, digital ministry, theological reflection, worship resources and training. I hope some of that can continue when I’m in full-time ministry, although probably with less freelance work. I don’t want the whole site to become a sales pitch, but I’m hoping some of this may lead to paid work, particularly with churches, circuits or organisations that want help thinking through these questions.

The move away from Wix is also an ethical decision. I’ve become increasingly uncomfortable continuing to build my work there, given the company’s Israeli base and the public controversies around its response to criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza. I don’t think any digital platform is ethically uncomplicated. WordPress, hosting companies, social media and payment systems all come with compromises. But the tools we use are not entirely separate from the work we do, and this feels like a better fit.

It has taken me longer than I would have liked. Some of that is because moving websites is fiddly. Some of it is because building a new site means learning different tools, making lots of small decisions, fixing things that don’t behave how I expected, and trying not to lose the whole evening to one setting hidden in the wrong menu. For me, that kind of task sits very neatly in the overlap between ADHD, executive dysfunction and task paralysis. I’ve known for a while that I wanted to do this. Actually doing it was another matter. On the other hand I started late this morning and got into a little bit of a hyperfocus which lasted until I suddenly realised I was hungry. (Actually Tiffany reminded e the She was hungry.)

For now, the site is still taking shape. I’ll move older posts across gradually, add workshop pages, and possibly gather some liturgical resources, prayers, some service outlines and a few other bits and bobs.

So this is not a grand relaunch. It is more of a slightly overdue beginning again.

Welcome to Faithfully Awkward.