The top-selling Bible in North America will undergo its first revision in 25 years, modernizing the language in some sections and promising to reopen a contentious debate about changing gender terms in the sacred text.
And, the TNIV is being retired.
Saw that earlier today.
Honestly haven't used an NIV in years. Banged around for a while and settled on the ESV. It's very close to the RSV I was raised on (being a revision of it), and for me, very readable. And the committee wasn't afraid of keeping the big technical words -- justification, propitiation, etc.
The ESV also attempts to be gender neutral, when appropriate, in a way that doesn't club you over the head with it's PC-ness.
The real solution, of course, would be to raise a generation capable of reading the original languages. Like that'll happen.
Would love, by the way, to get me one of these (NET Bible NT/NA27 diglot with notes).
I know the feeling well... ~grin~