Who is Chris?

My name is Chris Duckworth.

I am a 33 year-old approved candidate for ordained ministry in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.  I am currently finishing up a 12-month congregational internship and am looking forward to seeking a congregational call later this year.  I graduated from The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia in 2002.  Other incarnations of my vocation include:

• 9-month CPE resident chaplain at a major hospital Philadelphia,
• Christian publishing sales representative,
• seminary fundraiser,
• congregational youth ministry director, and
• high school Spanish teacher.

In addition to my BA in Latin American Studies and my Master of Divinity, I've dabbled in M.B.A. and M.Ed. programs at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA.

In October 2002 I married a beautiful woman, scholar, pastor, friend, baseball fan and unashamed liberal. Despite her loyalty to the abomination known as the Designated Hitter, I still love her. We have three children: Talitha, Cana, and Naaman.

I'm hopelessly Lutheran. Of course, what does it mean to be Lutheran? Well, for me Lutheranism is about paradoxes - Sinner/Saint, Two Kingdoms, Law/Gospel, Justification by Grace through Faith, Theology of the Cross. I care less about liturgical legalese than I do theology, about polity than I do the paradox. Lutheranism can be dressed up in a variety of ways, but at its heart is a God of grace-filled paradox.

But I also love politics (of the moderate/liberal variety), baseball (of the woeful Phillies variety), family (of my dysfunctional variety), reading (of the Dilbert, religion and history varieties), running (well, of the pipedream variety), writing (of various varieties), antiquing (of the I don't buy - I only look variety), and yes, blogging (of The Lutheran Zephyr variety).

Email: lutheranzephyr@gmail.com

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Check you LZ gmail for something from me. And here I am, stuck in Wisconsin. Doing the sandwich generation jig.

[Diane]

our intern wants to know: what seminary are you affiliated with?

I want to know: what happened to your blog roll? I just found someone connected with you and wanted to add them to my list, but when I came back, no list!