Getting trust back

First things first: It's better to deal with the real issues | Joel Belz

Lovers of the Bible had every right to rejoice last week as word went out that the International Bible Society and Zondervan Publishing House had made a hard and perhaps costly decision to abandon plans to develop what they called a "gender-accurate" version of the New International Version. Our cover story this week, starting on p. 12, provides some of the details of how that decision came about.

No one should pretend, however, that IBS's and Zondervan's commitment signifies anything like agreement among evangelicals about basic faithfulness in Bible translation. Based on their own words, IBS and Zondervan cancelled the project because of pragmatic market considerations. In most of the press releases and in an interview on National Public Radio's Weekend All Things Considered, spokesmen for the NIV continued to argue that what they had planned was entirely proper-but that their evangelical audience simply wasn't ready for it.

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