Robert M. Holmes

Robert M. Holmes was a Methodist minister and the author of the popular radio and TV series of one-minute “Lifelifters” and a nationally-broadcast speaker. He was an outspoken, Harley-riding chaplain of Rocky Mountain College from 1965-1981 and a Police Department chaplain. He lent his speaking gifts to the Montana Committee for the Humanities Speaker’s Bureau for several years and appeared as a featured speaker around the U.S. and the U.K. Dr. Holmes was an tireless 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.

His published books are  Why Jesus Never Had Ulcers and Other Thought-Provoking Questions (1988) and The Academic Mysteryhouse, the Man, the Campus and Their New Search for Meaning (1970).

Born in 1925, in Mitchell, S.D., he graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University, with 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, author of two published and two unfinished books, reader at Montana Talking Books Library, and deftly played the musical saw.