Dr. Holmes likes to say that the smartest thing he ever did was marry Barbara. The couple were in the first grade together and later married in 1965. They emigrated from Northern Ireland to the United States in 1967. They have two children.
Education:
BA, University of Mobile, Mobile, Alabama 1975
MDiv, Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson, MS 1978 
DMin, Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, GA 1984 
PhD, Ecole Supérieure Sorbonne, Paris, France 2014 
LLD (honoris causa), Grove City College, PA 1994