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TURES COLUMN: Turks and Syrians confront a Post-Earthquake Disaster: their governments
An estimated 50,000 Turks and Syrians have or will have perished in Southern Turkey and Northern Syria. But Turks and Syrians are facing a powerful ...
Steven Ray Bowen, Author at LaGrange Daily News
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BOWEN COLUMN: This life story begins in 1973 (kind of)
Very good day to all my friends and loyal readers in my great hometown of LaGrange, Georgia and beyond. Through the years – twenty-five and ...
by Steven Ray Bowen, Thursday, February 23, 2023 9:30 am
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BOWEN COLUMN: How big is God? ‘To try to tell our lips can only start’
Songwriter Stuart Hamblen wrote a great, classic song in 1959. Ah, just thinking back to that time, I have to shake my head at how ...
by Steven Ray Bowen, Tuesday, January 10, 2023 10:30 am
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BOWEN COLUMN: Santa Claus is coming to town
Well, by the time this column hits your mighty-well-lit and finely-decorated front porch Christmas will be in full swing. I never get to this place ...
by Steven Ray Bowen, Thursday, December 22, 2022 10:30 am
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BOWEN COLUMN: Preacher Miller sure learned to walk the walk a long time ago
In August of 1997, we started writing for my hometown paper in LaGrange, Georgia. We are currently celebrating our twenty-fifth year of sending columns and ...
by Steven Ray Bowen, Friday, November 25, 2022 10:30 am
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BOWEN COLUMN: A chronicle of Day 5 of our second annual Yellowstone excursion
There’s nothing like pulling up the tent pegs, loosening the ropes, and preparing to set off home. I couldn’t help but use that metaphor at ...
by Steven Ray Bowen, Thursday, September 29, 2022 9:30 am
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BOWEN COLUMN: There are no small things
There really are no small things. I learned that lesson on this Monday, again. Here on our second day, a ‘small’ thing happened out of ...
by Steven Ray Bowen, Friday, August 19, 2022 9:30 am
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BOWEN COLUMN: ‘How Great Thou Art’ timely for today
Well, friends, you’ll be glad to know my buddy Todd and I made it safely through our nearly 40-mile hike in Yellowstone. I know I’ll ...
by Steven Ray Bowen, Tuesday, July 26, 2022 9:30 am
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BOWEN COLUMN: Heading to Yellowstone again
Well, my friends, we are doing it again. By the time this column gets to you, my friend Todd Perrin and I will be deep ...
by Steven Ray Bowen, Saturday, July 16, 2022 10:30 am
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BOWEN COLUMN: Lesson-learned the hard way, back behind the gym
In all of our studies, we are constantly trying to teach people — whomever will listen — a lesson or two they can retrieve when ...