Bible "Detox": Going Deeper Together

March 21, 2026, 1:00pm Eastern 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 discussed by Katy E. Valentine and abby mohaupt — as well as other scriptures that are arising in our hearts and minds — in dialogue and contemplation. In supportive community, we will seek to understand and articulate the mindset shifts and action steps that these teachings call us to. This session will be shepherded by CLBSJ Contemplative Traditions Advisor Sr. Sharifa Meytung and CLBSJ Executive Director Amy L. Dalton.

NOTE: In order to make a more intimate space, this session will not be archived for future viewing.

Image: “Women Harvesting” by Paul Klee

Please Note! Registration closes one half hour prior to the start of the event.

Facilitator Bios

Sr. Sharifa Vernice Meytung is a Catholic-Buddhist lay contemplative practitioner who serves as the Contemplative Traditions Advisory for CLBSJ. She is also a teacher of young children; a haijin (writer of haiku poetry) and an abstract painter. 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 scholar-activist who has served since 2020 as the Executive Director of CLBSJ. She 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 has experience in faith-based, community-based, campus-based and online social justice organizing, and professional experience in nonprofit development; writing, editing and publishing; hospitality and event planning. Amy currently serves as Treasurer of the Board of Proyecto Faro, a Rockland County-based immigrant rights group; and as Membership Chair of the PTA at her daughter’s school. Amy holds a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary, a Bachelor of Arts in sociology/anthropology from Swarthmore College. Read her full bio here.