June 27, 2026 New
The Larger Hope: Where the Name Comes From
A boy hiding behind a staircase. A grieving poet who couldn't quite believe, but couldn't quite let go either. And a phrase that became the name of this website.
Read More →📖 The Larger Hope – Nothing New Under the Sun
Start Here →A journey through Scripture exploring the biblical foundations for the hope of universal reconciliation.
June 14, 2026
When Fear Tamed the Table (Part 2 of 2)
How did a church that began with such a wide and confident hope end up handing so many of us a smaller gospel? The answer runs through the Latin West, through Tertullian's legal imagination, and through Augustine's enormous shadow.
Read More →May 30, 2026
The Classrooms Nobody Told Me About (Part 1 of 2)
The early church had schools — Alexandria, Caesarea, Antioch, Edessa and Nisibis. These weren't fringe communities. They were the theological center of gravity for early Christianity. And most of them taught a gospel considerably larger than what many of us inherited.
Read More →May 23, 2026
Origen of Alexandria: The Teaching That Would Not Die (Part 2 of 2)
What did Origen actually teach about apokatastasis — the restoration of all things — and why has it refused to disappear for eighteen centuries? His core conviction: God's judgment is real, but its purpose is healing, not permanent condemnation.
Read More →May 16, 2026
Origen of Alexandria: The Man Behind the Idea (Part 1 of 2)
Before we hear what Origen taught, we need to know who he was — the teenager who held Alexandria's greatest school together after his father's execution, who spent thirty years on Scripture, and who endured torture rather than renounce his faith.
Read More →May 9, 2026
God Is Love: The Love That Never Fails (Part 2 of 2)
If God is love, and love never fails, then His declared intention toward creation cannot ultimately fall short. What does that mean for the end of the story — for you, for the people you love, for the whole creation?
Read More →May 9, 2026
God Is Love: Reading 1 Corinthians 13 as God's Self-Portrait (Part 1 of 2)
What if the Love Chapter is not primarily a to-do list for us — but a portrait of who God is? Everywhere Paul writes "love is…" we can hear the Father saying, "I am…"
Read More →April 26, 2026
If This Is True, How Then Shall We Live? (Part 9) — Series Finale
The Larger Hope is not just a doctrine to debate. It is an orientation of the heart that touches everything — how you worship, how you grieve, how you pray, how you forgive, and how you finally rest.
Read More →April 20, 2026
The Second Death and the God Who Makes All Things New (Part 8)
The lake of fire and "all things new" appear back-to-back in Revelation. What happens when we refuse to let one cancel the other — and read them together as the same God's story?
Read More →April 13, 2026
When Freedom Meets a Love That Never Quits (Part 7)
The free will objection is real and worth taking seriously. But it rests on a picture of freedom that may be smaller than the one Scripture paints — and a picture of God that may be smaller still.
Read More →March 29, 2026
Her Gates Will Never Be Shut: New Jerusalem and the End of the Story (Part 6)
Revelation ends not with a sealed fortress, but with a city whose gates never close, rivers of living water, and leaves for the healing of the nations. What kind of God writes that ending?
Read More →March 21, 2026
When God Is "All in All": Gregory of Nyssa and the Victory of Love (Part 5)
One of the church's great defenders of the Trinity dared to ask what Paul's phrase actually means — and his answer might surprise you. God's judgment as the work of a physician, not a punisher.
Read More →March 14, 2026
What Kind of "Eternal Punishment"? (Part 4)
Two small Greek words — aionios and kolasis — have carried a huge load in our doctrines of hell. What if they point us toward God's justice as purifying, not pointless?
Read More →March 7, 2026
Jesus, Gehenna, and the Fire That Cleans House (Part 3)
Jesus' hardest words about Gehenna and fire don't have to cancel the Larger Hope. They might actually fit inside it once we hear them in their own story.
Read More →February 22, 2026
Fire That Heals: Old Testament Judgment as Purifying, Not Final (Part 2)
If the Old Testament God of blessing also speaks of wrath and fire, what kind of judgment is He describing? The answer may surprise you — and change the way you read the New Testament's judgment texts as well.
Read More →February 22, 2026
From Abraham to Isaiah: Old Testament Hints of a Larger Hope (Part 1)
From the promise to Abram that "all families of the earth shall be blessed" to Isaiah's vision of the earth filled with the knowledge of the Lord — the Old Testament has always been leaning toward something bigger than we imagined.
Read More →February 16, 2026
Paul's "Too Big" Gospel
Paul isn't merely tossing out isolated "universal-sounding" verses; he's sketching a gospel-shaped vision of God's victory that is cosmic in scope, rooted in Christ's resurrection, and aimed at nothing less than God being "all in all."
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God Is Love: Reading 1 Corinthians 13 as God Introducing Himself (Part 1 of 2)
What if we stopped reading the Love Chapter as a to-do list and started hearing it as God speaking about Himself? The Apostle John wrote: "God is love" — not God has love, not God does loving things. God is love. That changes everything about what follows.
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God Is Love: What Never Fails (Part 2 of 2)
Part 2 of our journey through 1 Corinthians 13 — sitting with the words that will not let us go: love never fails. What does it mean that the One who is love never fails?
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What is Evangelical Universalism?
An introduction to the biblical hope that God's redemptive love will ultimately triumph over all evil and reconcile all creation to Himself.
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The Early Church Fathers and Universal Restoration
Exploring what early Christian leaders like Origen, Gregory of Nyssa, and others taught about the scope of salvation.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Addressing common questions and concerns about Evangelical Universalism with honesty and biblical grounding.
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