A painting by Winston Churchill sold for $12 million: Finding our true worth in Whose we are
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 5 March 2021
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A painting by Winston Churchill recently sold for $12 million. Today's podcast explains why this story is personal for me, then we focus on the distinction between basing our identity on what we do, who we are, and Whose we are, closing with a question we should ask ourselves every day.
The Daily Article is written by Dr. Jim Denison with the Denison Forum. This podcast is narrated by Chris Nichter.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
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| 0:19.5 | I have a bust of Winston Churchill on my desk. |
| 0:22.6 | I purchased it in the gift shop at Blenheim Palace, his birthplace. |
| 0:27.6 | Several times over the years, I have visited the war rooms in London where he led England |
| 0:31.6 | through World War II and the memorial to him at Westminster Abbey. |
| 0:36.6 | I have studied many of his speeches in detail, |
| 0:39.7 | including the famous Iron Curtain speech he delivered 75 years ago today. I have given |
| 0:45.4 | lectures on his life at St. Martin's Church in Bladen, the place where he and his wife Clementine are |
| 0:51.3 | buried. I have read four biographies of Churchill and seen three movie |
| 0:56.0 | biographies of him. I say all of that to say that I'm a bit of a Churchill fan, and I really wish I had a spare |
| 1:02.9 | $12 million. If I did, I would have purchased Tower of the Cotobia Mosque. This painting depicts a sunset |
| 1:10.2 | over Marrakesh's largest mosque, which Churchill took |
| 1:13.9 | President Franklin Roosevelt to see after they participated in the 1943 Casablanca Conference. |
| 1:21.2 | Roosevelt was so enamored with the sunset that Churchill painted the scene as a gift for him. |
| 1:30.5 | While Churchill completed more than 550 paintings, |
| 1:37.3 | this was the only work of art he completed during World War II. Actress Angelina Jolie and her ex-husband Brad Pitt purchased the painting in 2011. She sold it this week at a Christie's London |
| 1:43.6 | auction for nearly $12 million. I wish I'd |
| 1:47.4 | been the buyer. Here's the part of the story that it pains me to admit. I don't think Tower of the |
| 1:55.8 | Kotobia Mosque is a great work of art. In fact, if its painter had been anonymous, I wouldn't pay $1,200 for it, |
| 2:04.0 | much less $12 million. I would guess that the buyer explains to anyone viewing it that it was |
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