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Here's a first look at the Baptist Standard issue for May 13, 2002.
Just click on the story links below to see the entire article on our website at www.baptiststandard.com



FRONT PAGE
--Intelligent design question tests Ohio school board
--Austin woman clothes customers with hope at her boutique
--New study notes shift of Hispanic Protestants

TEXAS BAPTISTS
--Two Dallas churches announce big building plans
--Austin woman clothes customers with hope at her boutique
--Texas Baptist Men leader taking early retirement
--Georgetown minister wins hole-in-one challenge
--Billy Graham's Metroplex Mission looks for impact with younger crowd
--BGCT missions committee will listen to ideas
--Texans to lead Bivocational Ministers' Association
--Aussie looks to States for bivocational ministry model
--Happy Church gets a scare as ill wind blows through
--Board proposes BGCT child-care offering
--Singing Men of Texas launch China partnership
--Dedication of DBU's Landry Center focuses on character
--Armes named Wayland system president
--Texas Tidbits

BAPTISTS
--Arthur Andersen settles, yet again, with Arizona foundation investors
--Baptists urged to speak for religious liberty despite war
--Missouri agencies dispute MBC's legal opinion
--Team spirit meets the spiritual in new Varsity Bibles
--Baptist Briefs

RELIGION
--Intelligent design question tests Ohio school board
--New study notes shift of Hispanic Protestants
--Religious persecution summit wants to keep up pressure
--Senate follows House on ministerial tax-break bill
--Stem-cell debate splits in unusual ways

OPINION
--Editorials: First Baptist Dallas draws a line down San Jacinto Street
--Another View: Baptists, of all people, should stand against inquisition
--Charles Wade: John's 'Word' is Jesus, not the Bible
--Down Home: Skeeter-eaters don't eat much
--He Said/ She Said
--Texas Baptist Forum
--Cybercolumn

BIBLE STUDY
--Commentaries on Explore the Bible and Family Bible Study LifeWay lessons for May 5.
--Commentaries on Explore the Bible and Family Bible Study LifeWay lessons for May 12.
--Commentaries on Explore the Bible and Family Bible Study LifeWay lessons for May 19.
--Commentaries on Explore the Bible and Family Bible Study LifeWay lessons for May 26.
--Commentaries on Bible Study for Texas for May 5, 12, 19, 26

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