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Saturday, September 19, 2026 Morning edition ≈ 5 min read

Scripture accompanies each story for the reader's reflection. It is not presented as God's judgment on the people or events reported.

Lead story
Business & markets

Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway chairman after more than 60 years

One of the longest runs in American business ends with a title change and a familiar surname.

Berkshire Hathaway said Friday that Warren Buffett, 96, is becoming chairman emeritus and will remain a member of the board, with his son Howard G. Buffett, a director since 1993, taking over as chairman effective immediately. The change comes eight months after Buffett handed the chief executive job to Greg Abel, and it closes a run at the company that began in 1965. Buffett said that "Father Time always wins," adding that time has "been generous with me" and that he is more confident than ever about what lies ahead. Under his leadership Berkshire's share price rose more than 5,500,000%, against roughly 39,000% for the S&P 500 over the same period.

Scripture for Reflection

“So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.”

Reading of a long career handed on, we can ask God to help us count our own days and spend them well.

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Tech & AI →
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Nvidia's Jensen Huang expects to sell twice as many chips next year

Double the silicon Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said Thursday that he expects the company to sell twice as many chips in the coming year, a month after it guided to 70% sales growth for its next fiscal year.

Scripture for Reflection

“The end of a matter is better than the beginning, and a patient spirit is better than a proud one.”

Bold forecasts are easy to make, so we can wait patiently for how a matter ends before staking much on it.

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Anthropic opens a Bay Area wet lab where Claude-directed robots run experiments

Robots at the bench Anthropic has set up a biology wet lab in the San Francisco Bay Area where robots directed by its Claude models automate laboratory tasks, though the company told Reuters the site is not for drug discovery specifically.

Scripture for Reflection

“I, wisdom, dwell together with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion.”

We can ask for prudence to keep pace with knowledge whenever our own work moves faster than our understanding.

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Stocks end a volatile week mixed as chipmakers carry the S&P 500 higher

Chips lead a split tape The S&P 500 rose 0.17% to 7,650.50 and the Nasdaq added 0.39% to 26,522.55 on Friday, while the Dow slipped 0.18% to 51,682.64 and semiconductors gained nearly 3%.

Scripture for Reflection

“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Today has enough trouble of its own.”

When the day's numbers swing both ways, we can tend to today's work and let tomorrow keep its own trouble.

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Science →
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NASA's Moon orbiter finds a 728-foot crater that formed in 2024

Once in a century NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter revealed a 728-foot-wide, 141-foot-deep crater, now named McGetchin, that formed between April 11 and May 22, 2024, and was spotted only in October 2025.

Scripture for Reflection

“Lift up your eyes on high: Who created all these? He leads forth the starry host by number; He calls each one by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.”

A crater no one watched form invites us to lift our eyes and look at the sky with wonder rather than worry.

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Fuel savings could give NASA's Roman Space Telescope 22 years of science

A frugal first burn Roman's August 31 course correction hit its target with more than 99% accuracy on about 40 pounds of fuel out of a 441-pound allocation, which NASA says could more than double the observatory's 10-year design life.

Scripture for Reflection

“For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.”

More years of looking outward can grow our wonder, and we can let each new image draw us toward gratitude.

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Letters to the King
You wrote songs in caves. Does hardship actually make a person deeper, or do we only say that afterward to make it bearable?
From the Baker's own shelf

I will not dress it up for you. The cave was cold, it smelled of bat and of bad decisions, and I did not feel one inch deeper while I was in it. I felt hunted. What I can tell you is what I found afterward: the cave took from me the things I had been gripping hardest, and my hands, having nothing left to hold, finally learned to open. So no, depth was not the gift of the cave. The cave only dug the hole. What filled it was the God who kept finding me down there, night after night, when no one else was looking. Do not go hunting hardship as a teacher, then; it is a poor one and it charges far too much. But when it arrives uninvited, as it will, do not waste the room it clears. Sing in it. Even badly. Especially badly. Some of my better lines came from a man who had not washed in a week.

– David, son of Jesse
Letters answered in the voice of the biblical King David.
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