
HyeLim Yoon is the 2023 Nancy Hardesty Memorial Scholarship recipient! Read about her here.
The scholarship application window for the 2024 award will open in January. Check this page for information.
Click here to access the 2023 scholarship application for information about the scholarship requirements.
Christian Feminism Today (formerly known as the Evangelical and Ecumenical Women’s Caucus) offers a $1,000 scholarship to a college senior or graduate student who is pursuing studies in religion or theology. The scholarship is awarded to a student who aspires to exemplify the values and achievements of Nancy A. Hardesty, a founding member of the Christian Feminism Today organization. The application window for the 2024 award will open by mid-January of 2024, and will remain open until April 30, 2024.
Hardesty spent much of her career in higher education. From 1988 to her death in 2011, Hardesty taught in the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Clemson University in South Carolina. Before arriving at Clemson, Hardesty also taught at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.
Hardesty’s first book, co-authored with Letha Dawson Scanzoni, was All We’re Meant to Be: Biblical Feminism for Today published in 1974. The ground-breaking book has gone through several editions, and was noted by Christianity Today, in its 50th anniversary issue, as one of the top fifty books influencing the evangelical movement. Hardesty subsequently wrote other books on topics ranging from women in the Bible to inclusive language in the church.
“We owe much to Nancy Hardesty for all her contributions to Christian feminism over the years,” Scanzoni said in 2011. “She played a major role in setting the stage for the 1974 founding of our organization…”