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 and themes discussed by Katy E. Valentine and abby mohaupt 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 shepherded by CLBSJ Contemplative Traditions Advisor Sr. Sharifa Meytung and CLBSJ Executive Director Amy L. Dalton.

Image: “Woman 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; 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.