Because it's just more authentic that way.....Looks like a new TNIV audio version of the Bible is coming at you with the following:

The Old Testament version features the voices of over 400 distinguished African-American actors, musicians, personalities and clergy, including 2007 Academy Award-winning actor Forest Whitaker (Moses), Angela Bassett (Esther), Cuba Gooding Jr. (Jonah), Denzel and Pauletta Washington (Song of Songs), LL Cool J (Samson), among others.

That's all find and dandy, (I'd buy it just for the Song of Songs.... :D), but what's with the TNIV translating father with parent?

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Turns out the highest paid ministers out there are Presbyterians. The worst paid? Evangelical ministers and baptists. Turns out all those people screaming condemnation on non-Christians are in fact the cheapest. Women too are higher paid on average than their male counterparts.

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