St. Paul of The Cross Passionist Retreat Center
23333 Schoolcraft Rd
Detroit, MI 48223
$250.00 Per-Person: Includes overnight room for Sunday and Monday, and all meals and program for all days
$150.00 Commuter: Includes all meals and program for Sunday – Tuesday
A native of New Jersey, Ruth Meyers earned her undergraduate degree in special education at Syracuse University and taught at the elementary-school level for five years. She earned her M.Div. from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary and her M.A. and Ph.D. in liturgical studies from the University of Notre Dame. She began teaching liturgy at CDSP in 2009 after 14 years on the faculty at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois. At CDSP, she served as dean of academic affairs from 2012 until 2023. A past president of North American Academy of Liturgy, she is a member of the Council of Associated Parishes for Liturgy and Mission.
Currently an assisting priest at All Souls Episcopal Parish in Berkeley, she has also served as a priest in the Dioceses of Western North Carolina, Western Michigan, and Chicago. A long-time deputy to General Convention, in 2018 she received the House of Deputies medal “for her faithful work to share her scholarship, wisdom and deep faithfulness with all of us in the church.”
She has served the Episcopal Church in several capacities: member of the Task Force on Liturgical and Prayer Book Revision (2018-2021); vice chair of the House of Deputies Special Committee on Sexual Harassment and Exploitation and Convener of the subcommittee on theology and language (2018); member of Task Force on the Study of Marriage (2015-2018); chair of the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music (2009-2015).
