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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

Evelyn Underhill’s “Theological Kindergarten” led by Robyn Wrigley-Carr

“Kindle our cold hearts and light up our dark minds”

June 15, 2024, in Nourse Hall, St. Alban’s Church

We were delighted to welcome Robyn Wrigley-Carr as the leader of our Quiet Day on June 15, 2024, co-sponsored with St. Alban’s Episcopal Church. . Robyn  is Associate Professor in Spirituality and Spiritual Care at the University of Divinity in Australia. Her PhD (University of St. Andrews, Scotland) examined Baron Friedrich von Hügel as a spiritual director. She is the author of The Spiritual Formation of Evelyn Underhill (2020) and Music of Eternity: Meditations for Advent with Evelyn Underhill (The Archbishop of York’s Advent Book, 2021), and she edited Evelyn Underhill’s prayer book (2018). As well as writing numerous articles and presenting on podcasts, she is a spiritual director … Read more