Dean’s Dispatch: February 2026

It is February, 1776. Relations with our country’s sovereign and legislature have been crumbling for years now. You remember the Stamp Acts, don’t you? And the Tea Tax? We had such fun unloading those tea crates into Boston Harbor! Last spring British troops tried to...

Dean’s Dispatch: January 2026

On January 1, 1804, after the final battle defeating the French, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the leader of the Haitian revolution, declared independence for the colony and renamed it “Haiti” after its Native American Taino name. The freed Haitians made a humble squash...
Dean’s Dispatch: December 2025

Dean’s Dispatch: December 2025

As we come into December most of us can’t help reflecting on God’s goodness. We look back on a year and remember previous Christmastimes; we imagine what we might buy (or get!) over the holidays; we look forward to laughing with family and – we hope – some...