Mark Cuban's gift to New York City: 9/11 and the redemptive grace of God
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 9 September 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Mark Cuban has made a gift to New York City that is especially appropriate as the twentieth anniversary of 9/11 approaches. In The Daily Article for September 9, 2021, Dr. Jim Denison tells this story, then he focuses on ways God can use us to redeem even the greatest tragedies of the past for eternal significance.
The Daily Article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and 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. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit |
| 0:12.5 | thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.6 | Mark Cuban is known for being many things, billionaire entrepreneur, maverick owner of the |
| 0:25.6 | Dallas Mavericks, Shark Tank Shark. |
| 0:28.6 | Now we can add 9-11 benefactor. |
| 0:31.6 | Cuban recently purchased what Axios describes as a stunning set of drawings of the World Trade Center. |
| 0:38.6 | They were made in 1963, ten years before the building's 1973 dedication, and they capture |
| 0:45.5 | the majestic and monumental nature of those iconic structures. |
| 0:49.9 | Cuban is not keeping the drawings in Dallas, however. |
| 0:53.1 | He's donating them to the Cooper Hewitt-Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City. |
| 0:58.5 | He made his gift ahead of Saturday's 9-11 anniversary. |
| 1:02.6 | Cuban explained that the tragedy strikes an emotional chord with every American, |
| 1:07.8 | and added, |
| 1:08.3 | I wanted the actual drawings to be where any American can see them, |
| 1:12.9 | and the Smithsonian was the right home. |
| 1:17.8 | Any American old enough to remember September 11, 2001, is grieving its upcoming 20-year anniversary. |
| 1:25.8 | We are remembering where we were on that Tuesday morning |
| 1:28.7 | as we watched the news. Airplanes flying through a cloudless sky into skyscrapers, the fire |
| 1:35.2 | and billowing smoke, the collapse of the twin towers into rubble. Images of people jumping to |
| 1:41.0 | their deaths rather than burning to death are especially imprinted on our |
| 1:45.2 | minds and hearts. |
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