Canadian commentator Rex Murphy, takes on the media’s perception that God is not relevant.

These topics are larger than the attention that journalism usually gives them. They are also deeper than most of what journalism takes as its beat. Journalism, as its name betrays, is of the concerns of the day; religion, faith are not so much outside any news cycle, as beyond one. They are the subject matter of eternity.

There are no updates — there is no date to up — on Enron in eternity, which may be a powerful reason why so many people pine for it. Eternity is not an absence of news, so much as the impossibility of it.