About Letha

Letha Dawson Scanzoni is an independent scholar and writer specializing in the intersection between religion and social issues.

She has written on such topics as feminism, relationships of love and friendship, self-esteem and personal growth, human diversity, marriage and family living, divorce, aging and caregiving, sexuality and gender, sex ethics, social justice-oriented folk music, and physical and psychological family violence.

She is the author or coauthor of nine books and is editor of Christian Feminism Today (formerly titled EEWC Update). She is also the content provider for the EEWC website and writes the “Web Explorations for Christian Feminists” feature on that site.

Her books have been published by HarperCollins, McGraw-Hill, Bantam, Abingdon, Eerdmans, and Westminster John Knox, among others, and her articles have appeared in publications ranging from Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality, the Utne Reader, and SIECUS Report, to The Other Side, the Christian Century, and Christianity Today. She has also written chapters for various edited volumes.

Letha’s most recent book is What God Has Joined Together: The Christian Case for Gay Marriage (Harper Collins, Harper SanFrancisco, 2005, 2006), coauthored with psychologist David G. Myers.  The May 2006 paperback edition has a bonus feature in which the authors interview each other and talk about how they came to the views they expressed in the book. Click here and here to read endorsements from journalists, religious leaders, and others who have read the book.