Ralph Martin

President of Renewal Ministries

Ralph Martin is the president of Renewal Ministries and the host of the weekly Catholic television program The Choices We Face. He holds a doctorate in theology and has just completed twenty-three years as the director of Graduate Theology Programs in the New Evangelization at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in the Archdiocese of Detroit. Ralph is the author of A Life in the Spirit: A Memoir and the widely read A Church in Crisis: Pathways Forward and The Fulfillment of All Desire: A Guidebook for the Journey to God Based on the Wisdom of the Saints.

Ralph and his wife, Anne, reside in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and have six children and nineteen grandchildren.

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Our Blog

What Would You Have Me Do?

by Renewal Ministries Staff | May 6, 2021 | Blog

The following post is taken from a talk originally given at Renewal Ministries' 2021 Lift Jesus Higher Rally. The event is available on our YouTube Channel, here: https://www.youtube.com/ube.com/renewalministriesrm. By Christy DuPuis Recently, I was laying in bed with...

Faith: What About My Kids?

by Peter Herbeck | Apr 6, 2021 | Blog, Featured Authors

The following article is an abridged version of a talk Peter Herbeck gave on Renewal Ministries’ YouTube Channel titled Faith: What About My Kids. By Peter Herbeck So many parents and grandparents have shared with me their concerns regarding their children’s faith,...

Remembering Tim Green

by Heather Schultz | Apr 3, 2021 | Blog, Featured Authors

Tim Green, an integral member of Renewal Ministries' Mexico mission team since 2013, passed away on March 28, 2021. Below is an article from our July 2018 newsletter that featured Tim and his work in Mexico. Tim's obituary can be viewed here. Eternal rest grant unto...

A Call to Holiness

by Ralph Martin | Mar 26, 2021 | Blog, Featured Authors

The following post is taken from Ralph Martin’s first talk for Renewal Ministries’ The Fulfillment of All Desire Advent Mission, which is available on our YouTube channel. It also appeared in Renewal Ministries' February 2021 newsletter. One of the main points I want...

Walk with God in the New Year

by Tom Edwards | Dec 31, 2020 | Blog, Featured Authors

“Give Him everything. Trust Him obsessively. Hold back nothing! ‘So submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you of two minds'” (Jas 4:7-8).

Reading the Signs of the Times

by Lavinia Spirito | Oct 26, 2020 | Blog, Featured Authors

Any rational observer of the world can see that a big storm is on the horizon. Shaken by the failure of political and religious structures, as well as empty cultural realities, the world is looking around for something that cannot be shaken. Yet because of the...

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