Letha Dawson Scanzoni

From 1994 until her retirement[4] in December, 2013, she served as editor of both the print and website editions of Christian Feminism Today (formerly EEWC Update), the publication of the Evangelical and Ecumenical Women's Caucus.

Numerous scholars, whether they agree or disagree with the book's basic premise of gender equality, consider All We're Meant to Be to have been a major catalyst in launching the biblical feminist movement.

[5] Randall Balmer called the book a "landmark manifesto,"[6] Leora Tanenbaum said Scanzoni and Hardesty were "the first to offer alternative biblical interpretations to mainstream evangelicals.

"[8] Pamela Cochran, in her book Evangelical Feminism: A History, said All We're Meant to Be was the "most influential work in helping launch the evangelical feminist movement"[9] In As Christ Submits to the Church: A Biblical Understanding of Leadership and Mutual Submission, Alan G. Padgett said there was a "new hermeneutic" for interpreting the Bible "regarding the place of women in church, home, and society" and asserts that "by all accounts, the first major book on this topic by neoevangelicals was Letha Scanzoni and Nancy Hardesty's All We're Meant to Be: A Biblical Approach to Women's Liberation.

[when] freelance writers Letha Scanzoni and Nancy Hardesty published their groundbreaking book, All We're Meant to Be"[11] Theology professor Jack Cottrell, in an online article titled "How Feminism Invaded the Church"[12] said: "The major feminist writings during this period began with All We're Meant To Be: A Biblical Approach to Women's Liberation, by Letha Scanzoni and Nancy Hardesty (1974, then later editions).