ABOUT THE AUTHOR Bob Reed is a proud native of Marcus, Iowa (pop 1,171), who spent 25 years building and managing public television stations and as an executive at PBS. He has also served as a publisher and tenured professor and has penned dull, scholarly, research tomes including encyclopedias and dictionaries. This retiree is a Navy veteran and an awfully proud grandfather who plays that happiest of instruments-the banjo. But as his wife often reminds him, the difference between a banjo player and a treasury bond is that eventually the bond matures and makes money. He and his wife Max are members of the Winter Park Presbyterian Church in central Florida.
Bob is neither an elder nor deacon in the church, for he paraphrases Groucho Marx in saying that he couldn’t be a member of any topnotch group that would have him as a member. He reasons that feeling unworthy-far from disqualifying one for faith -is perhaps a requisite for having some.
Bob was raised a Methodist, and this little book grew out of his 13 years of continuing attempts to comprehend his new denomination. He is also the author of a collection of humorous short stories titled The Potluck Dinner That Went Astray (Smyth and Helwys Publishing). And he has written another collection of comic tales titled The Choir That Couldn’t Sing. He thinks his very presence on this earth is proof that God has an unusual sense of humor. And he’s certain that heaven is Iowa!