The Evelyn Underhill Association

Annual Day of Reflection

The Gift of a Discerning Heart

Liz Ward, leader

Saturday, June 13, 2026, 9:30 a.m-3:30 p.m.

Nourse Hall
St. Alban’s Episcopal Church

“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 subtle … Read more