late Dallas Willard’s book The Divine Conspiracy includes these words tucked away in a subordinate clause: “Nothing irredeemable has happened to us or can happen to us on our way to our destiny in God’s full world.” For me, that phrase has come to summarize the grand scheme of cosmic history set forth in Romans 8. “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?” Paul asks rhetorically as he enumerates the trials he faced as a harassed missionary: “Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine