The Kingdom Outside Us!

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Apr 13, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Apr 13, 2026 "It was that wonderful moment when, for lack of a visible horizon, the not yet darkened world seems infinitely greater -- a moment when anything can happen, anything be believed in." — Olivia Howard Dunbar Dusking: the Dutch Twilight Ritual Helping People Slow Down A Dutch writer is reviving "dusking" -- the nearly forgotten practice of pausing to watch the day fade into darkness -- and in doing so, offering something quietly radical to a world that has forgotten how to be still. Once common among farming famil...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Apr 12, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Apr 12, 2026 "When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed." — Maya Angelou Neighbors Transform Tent Encampment Into Shelter Village Matthew Stone, who was living in a tent with his dog in the woods of a central Illinois city, was among the first 55 residents to move into Bloomington’s first shelter village. A fully enclosed campus with a bathhouse and community center and 48 tiny sleeping cabins, The Bridge can accommodate 56 adults. It cost $2.7 million, two thirds from private donations and the rest from a co...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Apr 11, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Apr 11, 2026 "This is the spiritual commons. And the only way to regenerate it is the way it has always been regenerated: through small acts, repeated with presence, in the currency of the priceless… Not because the acts were large. Because the bandwidth was." — Nipun Mehta Sister Berta's Legacy In 1968, Sisters Berta Sailer and Corita Bussanmas were teaching at a Catholic elementary school. “One day, a mom said to us, we need a place for our small kids. And we were young and stupid and said, well, small kids can't be a probl...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Apr 10, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Apr 10, 2026 "There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." — Leonard Cohen Sleeping with Furniture Against the Door At five, Neha Kirpal was told not to brush her teeth because her mother believed the toothpaste was poisoned. Her mother had schizophrenia, and for years their home was a place where reality shifted without warning—furniture barricaded against doors at night, fights that sent her brother hiding under tables and police knocking on their door. Then, at thirteen, her mother and brother disappeared. Fo...

This week's inspiring video: Time Out of Joint, Global Shakespeare in Prison Having trouble reading this mail? View it in your browser . Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe   Video of the Week Apr 09, 2026   Time Out of Joint, Global Shakespeare in Prison   Rehabilitation through the Arts brought a screening of three films based on Shakespearean works to an...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Apr 09, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Apr 09, 2026 "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." — Haruki Murakami Why Pain Is Different From Suffering It was an "utterly unfun experiment to be part of," recounts Cortland Dahl with a smile. "But it was also very illuminating." Lying in a brain scanner, participants in this research study were subjected to scalding water piped through a small thermode on their wrists -- at regular intervals over and over, for hours. Before each jolt of heat, a sound would signal what was coming. The test subjects were e...