The Burke County Democratic Party’s Morganton 5 precinct will meet at Grace Ridge, 500 Lenoir Road, at 3:30 p.m. Any Democrats assigned to vote at Advent Church on Lenoir Road are invited to attend.

Society at large, as well as in many a church context, has simply come to see Advent as part of Christmas-time. Perhaps the fact that the penitential character of Lent still attracts public ...