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Cover Story Sidebar | A Bible for evangelicals: The genesis of the NIV In 1965, an informal group of scholars from a variety of evangelical denominations and schools met in Palos Heights, Ill., and concluded that a new Bible translation was needed. Leaders from many denominations concurred the following year in Chicago. The Palos Heights group set up a self-governing, self-perpetuating 15-member body, the Committee on Bible Translation, and turned over to it the project to develop what became the New

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October surprise

by Edward E. Plowman

Cover Story | Eighteen months after the International Bible Society announced it had abandoned its "inclusive-language" Bible project, fresh supplies of the gender-neutral NIrV Bible are back in circulation. The new printing of the gender-neutral NIrV brings back old questions of commitment to faithful Bible translation.

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In this issue: "Bible translation blues," Nov. 21, 1998

Features

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How you can help

International |  Many organizations are providing relief to victims of Hurricane Mitch. These groups are all in good repute but WORLD has not screened them beyond general…

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Mitch cripples Honduras, but Christians offer hope

International |  Snapshots from the eye of a deadly storm

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Gender neutralized

National |  Wycliffe backs out of February gender-language conference; organizers pull the plug

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Dispatches

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Quotables

I would consider taking business class, particularly with the present difficult times for the economy. Andrew Leung, a Hong Kong official in the Chinese…

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This Week

Hey Big Spender How much will it cost businesses to prepare computers for Y2K? Publicly traded companies are now required to report these costs to the…

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Reviews

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Electronic reformation?

by Chris Stamper

Culture |  Amazon.com, secrets, and other cultural buzz

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Hamlet or Betty the Yeti

by Gene Edward Veith

Culture |  Universities that reject dead white males like Shakespeare are committing intellectual suicide

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Beltway Books: Searching instead for an agenda-neutral Bible

by Vern S. Poythress

Books |  Books on the Bible translation debate try to smooth over the conflict, but end up conceding too much

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Voices

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Mailbag

Educate first Lynn Vincent's well-done article on whether we will ever have a pro-life governor in California brings up a series of interesting philosophical…

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Lost in wonderland

by J. Budziszewski

Why our countrymen deny what they already know

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Pig goes to market

by Joel Belz

His owner's commitment helped in last week's celebration

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The two Jeffersons

by Marvin Olasky

Both failed as doers and as men

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