The term Christian universalism was used in the 1820s by Russell Streeter in the Christian Intelligencer of Portland, Maine – a descendant of Adams Streeter who had founded one of the first Universalist Churches on September 14, 1785.[2][3][4] Christian universalists believe this was the most common interpretation of Christianity in Early Christianity, prior to the 6th century.[5][6] Christians from a diversity of denominations and traditions believe in the tenets of Christian universalism, such as the reality of an afterlife without the possibility of eternal punishment in hell.[7]