I remember a news program which showed the release of a number of wild turkeys into the wilderness of southwestern United States. They were seeking to reestablish a strain of turkeys in that area. In order to track them and understand how they were doing, a little radio was affixed to the back of each of the turkeys. Can you imagine being able to sit at a screen and follow the whereabouts of all those turkeys?

How would you like to have a tracking device affixed to your back, so that your family, and your best friends, and your church community, and your bowling team and your lodge could follow your every move? Every day. How would you like that?

This thought occurred to me as I was thinking about this coming Lenten season, a time when, for centuries and centuries, Christians have either bee…