Bible "Detox": Going Deeper Together

April 12, 2025, 10am-12pm Eastern US Time

Reckoning with and resisting the misuse of the Bible to promote and justify violence and oppression.

Our closing Lenten Bible Detox session will be a participatory gathering in which we revisit the scriptures and themes discussed by Kate Common and Jeremy Williams in dialogue and contemplation. In supportive community, we will endeavor to discern what mindset shifts and action steps their teachings call us to. This session will be facilitated by CLBSJ Contemplative Traditions Advisor Sr. Sharifa Meytung and CLBSJ Executive Director Amy Dalton.

Participants are encouraged to have attended or watched the archive of at least one of the previous detox sessions. These archives are now online:
Session 1
Session 2

PLEASE NOTE: Registration will be open until 9:00am Eastern US Time on the day of the event.

Image: “At the Core” by Paul Klee

Session Hosts:

Sr. Sharifa Vernice Meytung is a Catholic-Buddhist lay contemplative practitioner; teacher of young children; haijin (writer of haiku poetry) and an abstract painter. Her spiritual practice is also deeply informed by her ancestral animist indigeneity. She has studied in many community and academic settings, including Catholic Theology at the University of Erfurt, Germany. In the year 2000 she pilgrimed to the Jasna Gora Monastery in Poland, in homage to Our Lady of Czestochowa to whom she devoted her contemplative lay vows in the same year. Read her full bio here.

Amy L. Dalton is a faith-rooted community organizer who has been deeply involved in peace and justice work since age 13 when she served on the Reconciling Committee at Claremont United Methodist Church. She currently serves as Treasurer of the Board of Proyecto Faro, a Rockland County-based immigrant rights group; as a volunteer with Rockland For Ceasefire, a Palestine solidarity organization; and as Membership Chair of the PTA at her daughter’s school. Amy holds a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary, and has served as the Executive Director of CLBSJ since 2020.