Ed Townley has been a licensed and ordained Unity minister for more than 20 years, after an earlier career as an actor, director and playwright. He has served congregations in Beaverton, Oregon; Chicago, Illinois; Dallas, Texas; and Hartford, Connecticut. Rev. Ed, as he is often called, is the author of Meditations on the Mount, a metaphysical appreciation of the Sermon on the Mount that was later released in paperback as The Secret According to Jesus. He is the hose of Bible Alive!, a weekly program of Bible discussion on Unity Online Radio, and responds to requests for Bible interpretation directed to Unity's website, www.unity.org. Rev. Ed lives in Manchester, Connecticut, with his partner in ministry, a Welsh corgi named Bentley.