What is Montessori Education and how does it relate to spirituality?  We will explore Maria Montessori's writings and UU principles to discover new ways of looking at children, the world, and our own spiritual path.
Dinorah Sapp teaches at the Intensive English Program at the University of Mississippi. She was born in Mexico City and arrived in the U.S. when she was 15 years-old to complete her high school education at a boarding school in Texas. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Music with a minor in Spanish (Austin College) and a Master's Degree in Language Education from Indiana University. She is married to Chris Sapp and has a spunky daughter named Olivia. Dinorah has lived in Germany, Austria, and Ecuador, and has traveled extensively throughout Europe and Latin America. She enjoys spending time with her husband and daughter, traveling, reading, and cooking. 
​Greg Johnson will be our service leader.

We will be privileged on June 5, 2016 to have Dr. Frances Courtney Kneupper as our speaker. Courtney is a religious and cultural historian of the late middle ages and a professor at the University of Mississippi. For our service, she will focus on interpretations of the book of Revelation throughout history. In particular, she will consider the ways that the book of Revelation has been used to encourage both persecution and positive social action. Courtney's research as a historian focuses on heresy, prophecy, and religious dissent in the Holy Roman Empire. Publications include The Empire at the End of Time: Identity and Reform in Late Medieval German Prophecy and The Wirsberger Brothers: Contesting Spiritual Authority Through Prophecy, in Peoples of the Apocalypse/Völker der Endzeit.  Dr. Kneupper's current project is entitled Future Things are Hidden from Mankind and Ought Not to Be Known: Contesting Knowledge of the Future in the Late Middle Ages.
She lives in Oxford with her husband, Alan Arrivée and two beautiful daughters, Beatrice and Anor.
Mari Kuhnle, Service Leader