John the Baptist starts Sunday’s lectionary reading from Luke 3 shouting “You brood of vipers!” Who was he shouting at and and why? And was he under the influence of his diet of bugs (AKA locusts and wild honey, containing larval bees)? Come to a one-time, no-continuing-obligation adult class in the library Sunday morning, December 16, at 9 a.m.

This class will take a two-week Christmas vacation (no class December 23 or 30). Watch for January’s opportunities to respond to MLK’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.”