The Essence of God

Speaker(s): Bauman, Edward

Description: The Rev. Dr. Edward W. Bauman (1927-2021) was senior pastor at Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington, DC from the early 1970s until 1992. Here, he preaches at The Church of the Saviour in Washington, DC. The scripture is 1 John 4:7-21. Bauman earned his Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from Boston University Graduate School. In 1957, he was appointed as a chaplain to American University in Washington, D.C., a post he would keep until 1960 when he started teaching at Wesley Theological Seminary. In the Spring of 1965, the Washington area bishop appointed him to Foundry Church where he served as senior pastor until his retirement in 1991. In 1979, Time Magazine named him one of the most outstanding ministers in the United States. Part of this recognition by Time centered on his weekly Sunday morning WMAL-AM radio broadcasts which spanned more than thirty years. His career in television and film lasted thirty-five years (1958-1992). Television stations across the United States carried his shows. In 2010, and newly retired, Bauman admitted in a letter to the Foundry United Methodist Church in DC to "relationships of a sexual nature ... with several women in the congregation." After his retirement from Foundry, he served for eight years as associate rector at St. Paul's Rock Creek Episcopal Church in DC and then as part-time chaplain at the Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, VA, retiring at the age of 91.

Length: 41:51
Recording Date: August 28, 1994
Recorded at: Church of the Saviour, Washington, DC