Five days early, Five years late

The upcoming publication of a politically correct revision of the popular New International Version Bible seems like a scene from Groundhog Day | Susan Olasky

The International Bible Society and Zondervan Publishing House jumped the gun by five days.

On Jan. 28 the two venerable evangelical institutions announced plans to publish Today's NIV, a gender-neutral revision of the NIV. The announcement coincided with the Christian Booksellers Association Expo, a trade show for Christian book retailers, and IBS handed out copies of its TNIV New Testament there (the whole TNIV won't be complete for another three years).

But that smooth product rollout became bumpy almost immediately, as the Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood rolled into action. Suddenly, like a scene from the movie Groundhog Day, where Bill Murray is forced to relive the same Feb. 2 until he gets it right, proponents of politically correct language were once again locked in combat with defenders of straight-up, nonideological translation.

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