Last week I was in the vicinity of a Lifeway Christian Bookstore in the Twin Cities, so I stopped in to see if they were following the directive from the Southern Baptist Annual Convention earlier this year. This is the edict where Lifeway was given a “suggestion” to not stock the NIV2011 (it being a “heretical” translation and all).

Thankfully, this particular store didn’t get the notice. They had the NIV2011. HOWEVER… they had more shelves of the NIV1984. For anyone looking to stock up on this particular edition for posterity, you still have plenty of choices.

It’s too bad Zondervan doesn’t order all retailers to move to the NIV2011 like Tyndale could with their NLT second edition.

In other news, here is another review of the NIV2011.