Karris Golden

Karris Golden, an award-winning journalist, is a full-time professional writer and editor. Her articles, personal essays, photos, short fiction and poetry have appeared in newspapers, magazines, literary journals and anthologies. She writes a weekly faith and values column for The Courier (Waterloo, Iowa). She also is a regular contributor to The Little Lutheran, Lutheran Woman Today and Café: Stirring the Spirit Within.

She is currently at work on several projects and seeks a publisher for her essay collection on motorcycling and spirituality. Karris also travels extensively and regularly speaks at events and gatherings of all sizes. In November 2008 she took part in a Women of the ELCA /ELCA Global Mission study seminar in South Africa.

Karris earned an associate in arts degree from Waldorf College, a bachelor's degree in journalism from Wartburg College and a Master of Arts degree in English from the University of Northern Iowa. In her free time, Karris enjoys reading, writing, photography, motorcycling, bicycling, canoeing and traveling. She lives in Shell Rock, Iowa, with her daughter, Zoey Golden Neessen.

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• Called 'to do more'
  ELCA program offers global mission experience for young adults
• Fast-tracking the process
  Help for the seminary-bound
• Not 'just another church leaving the ELCA'
• Taking a page from Book of Faith leaders
  Here's how they encourage the ELCA Bible initiative
• A little grace, with Christmas wrap
  Wartburg College students run holiday gift program
• Set apart
  ELCA schools are in a class by themselves
• College & seminary crunch
  Mission and funding collide in these economic times
• 'I felt welcomed, and I stayed'
  Who's your neighbor? Whom can you invite?
• Balancing studies and sports
  At Wartburg College, faculty mentors support student-athletes
• The Lutheran sense of vocation
  It's key for ELCA colleges and ELCA faculty at secular schools
• Dealing with a weak dollar
  Dollar's decline also affects the church's global work
• At a distance?
  Leaders discuss Luther Seminary's M.Div. distance learning
• ELCA camps evacuate due to wildfires
• Waldorf logs '50 Days of Service'
• Quiet volunteers
  Programs produce leaders for the church and world
• Adopting across cultures
  Such adoptions can enrich family life, parents say
• Koob: 'Revenge isn't the way'
• One month to work, learn in Tanzania
  Wartburg College students see the impact of AIDS firsthand
• Extend the welcome
• Student of fantasy
• Giving the gift of learning
  Wartburg students help Palestinian students attend college
• An enlightening exchange
  Mwangaza program connects ELCA and Tanzanian Lutheran educators
• No future?
  In Bethlehem, Palestinian Lutherans struggle to make ends meet
• Pipe organ logs frequent flier miles
• Cookies for 'big kids'
  Colorado church sends care packages to college students
• Getting involved
  Youth opportunities for service and growth
• When to pray for the ill
• 'What heaven must be like'
• California church calls noncelibate gay
• Role reversal
  'We're aiming for a marriage in which roles are based on what makes sense'
• Finding a mission
• Motor ministry
  Oregon men repair and give away 60 cars and are looking for more
• Keep your eyes on the pride
  An ELCA program guides African American boys on their journey into manhood
• Youth put on 'slave ship'
• 'You don't look like a Lutheran'
  Racism in the ELCA sends unwelcome vibe to visitors
• Sex on campus
  ELCA youth try to reconcile faith with sexual choices
• Happy birthday
• Felder: Racism tarnishes the gospel