A graduate of Wilmington College in Ohio, David E. Bumbaugh is a Unitarian Universalist minister who has served congregations in the Midwest and the Northeast for 40 years. He is currently a professor of ministry at Meadville Lombard Theological School in Chicago since 1999. The author of two books, The Education of God (1994) and Unitarian Universalism: A Narrative History (2000), he has contributed articles to various journals, chapters for several books and poems to various publications.