The Kingdom Outside Us!

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Aug 23, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Aug 23, 2026 "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." — Margaret Mead Solar Ambulance Built by 23 Students In a test center in the Netherlands, a sleek white-and-yellow vehicle glides quietly over concrete -- but it was built for something far rougher: the red-dirt roads of rural Kenya, where the nearest clinic can be a day's journey away. Twenty-three university students, many of whom paused their degrees to see it through, spent a yea...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Aug 22, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Aug 22, 2026 "I slip loose the nets / I have entangled myself in / and sliding into the open water / cast my lot with mystics and poets …" — Rev. Charles Gibbs Living with Questions At seventeen, Charles Gibbs was asked to stay after Sunday school class by a well-meaning elder -- and left with a message that would redirect the entire arc of his life: we don't ask questions like that here. Rather than killing his spiritual hunger, that closed door sent him into theater, into poetry, into decades building the United Religions Initi...

This week's inspiring video: From Gardener to Guardian Having trouble reading this mail? View it in your browser . Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe   Video of the Week Aug 20, 2026   From Gardener to Guardian   Mary Reynolds began her career in Ireland as a formal garden designer, but soon she discovered the need for re-wilding gardens to give nature a c...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Aug 20, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Aug 20, 2026 "Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start." — Nido Qubein Bringing Live Music to Deaf Audiences, with the Help of Air Guitar Luke Holdsworth spent his teenage years assuming live music simply wasn't for him -- not until his mid-20s did he attend his first concert, standing in a crowd he couldn't fully enter. Now, as one of the UK's most respected British Sign Language (BSL) interpreters at live events, he stands at the front of sold-out stadium sho...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Aug 18, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Aug 18, 2026 "Rejection is not the end of the story. Sometimes it's the beginning of the story. Sometimes it's the place where you find your lineage." — Sister Elizabeth Greim Why Can't You?: Three Decades with Those at the Margins Sister Elizabeth Greim dreamed of becoming a nun early on, but was told she couldn’t because her parents were divorced. In spite of this and other rejections, she wanted to be of service. In 1993, at age 33, with 4 earrings in each ear, a cigarette dangling, a failed marriage, and nowhere else ...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Aug 17, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Aug 17, 2026 "Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot." — Jamie Anderson Love That Has Nowhere Else to Go The tailor said 150 meters would be enough. One dress each. But the grieving mother looked at him and replied, "I want to give them five dresses each." There was silence. Then came school bags, lunch boxes, water bottles, chocolates, and name tags -- so that each child at the orphanage would receive something chosen personally for them. Ravinder Komaragiri writes of how h...