Rev. Dr. Robert M. Holmes was a Methodist minister, serving in Rapid City, SD; Dixon, CA and Helena, MT for many years. He was also the Harley-riding chaplain of Rocky Mountain College in Billings, MT from 1965 to 1981. He was the author of the popular radio and TV series of one-minute "Lifelifters", which aired regularly for years in Montana as well as Salt Lake City and a few nationally in the late 1980's. He was a chaplain of the Helena Police Department for 22 years. He lent his speaking gifts to the Montana Committee for the Humanities Speaker's Bureau for several years.

Bob was born in 1925 in Mitchell, S.D., graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University and earned graduate degrees from Northwestern University, Garrett Theological Seminary and Pacific School of Religion. He was a Navy ensign in WWII, big band leader, vaudeville comic, jazz pianist and arranger, rock climber, model train buff, honorary elder of a band of Lakota Sioux in South Dakota, personal counselor, radio show host, reader at Montana Talking Books Library, and deftly played the musical saw. Rev. Bob was an outspoken advocate for education, low-income people, single mothers, gays and lesbians, children in poverty, people in prison, the elderly and other people whose voices are not heard by the political system. He wrote, spoke, organized, testified before the legislature, and often stood alone to speak the truth out of his understanding for Jesus' message of compassion.

He published two books: "Why Jesus Never Had Ulcers and Other Thought-Provoking Questions", Winterholm Press, 1988 and "The Academic Mysteryhouse The Man, The Campus and Their New Search for Meaning", Abington Press, 1970.