Dana K. Greene
1942 – 2023

Dana Katherine Greene, President Emerita of the Evelyn Underhill Association, died on December 29, 2023, at her home in Alexandria, Virginia, surrounded by family members.

Born in 1942 in Port Monmouth, New Jersey, to Charles and Dorothea Greene, she had two sisters, Mary and Karen, and a brother, David. She graduated from the College of New Rochelle in New York, where she wrote her senior thesis on Dorothy Day, an early inspiration for her. She then joined the second group of Peace Corps volunteers to go overseas and served for two years in Costa Rica. On her return home, she earned a master’s degree in history at Northern Illinois University and a PhD in humanities at Emory University, where she met her husband, Richard Roesel, at the local Newman House. They were married for 55 … Read more

Annual Day of Reflection: June 13, 2026

The Gift of a Discerning Heart

Liz Ward, leader

Nourse Hall: St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, 9:30-3:30

“The real man or woman of prayer, then, should be a live wire, a link between God’s grace and the world that needs it.” –Evelyn Underhill

Evelyn Underhill treasures a discerning heart as one path to becoming this “live wire” the world so desperately needs today.  Throughout her writings she offers clues to the inner transformation that grows this precious gift.  She shares the ways that prayer can open us ever more fully to God’s transfiguring grace and facilitate the formation of a discerning heart.    Evelyn honors the many ways God’s loving, liberating Spirit lives and moves within and beyond each of us to create our unique capacities for hearing and honoring the quiet whispers and … Read more