The Evelyn Underhill Association

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

June 14, 2025 | Phil Fox Rose, Leader

It is useless to talk at large to those working people mostly living without privacy in noisy streets about the reality and necessity of prayer unless you provide a quiet place in which they can practice it. It must be a place which does not receive them with that forbidding air of a spiritual drawing room in dust sheets during the week but which abounds in suitable suggestions, offers an invitation which it helps them to accept.  — Evelyn Underhill, Concerning the Inner Life (1926) 

For many, encountering deeper Reality through contemplative practice is the beginning of, or a turning point in, their spiritual journey. Enabling this encounter is a subversive act — challenging society’s values. As writer and poet Tricia Hersey says, “rest is resistance.” Drawing from the … Read more