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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Casting Nets: The Lord is Present and Generous

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Jan 28, 2019 | Featured Authors

The following article is the fourth in a series called “Casting Nets." The posts are written by “John,” a student in one of Ralph Martin’s New Evangelization classes, and document several evangelization opportunities he has performed in his various ministries. He...

Healing, Freedom in Botswana

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Jan 19, 2019 | Featured Authors

This mission report originally appeared in Renewal Ministries' January 2018 newsletter By Nancy Greenhaw Our first mission to Botswana was a blessed trip in which the Lord went before us and many great things happened! We were invited both by the national treasurer of...

Introducing the St. Catherine of Siena Society

by Ralph Martin | Jan 10, 2019 | Featured Authors, Uncategorized

Dear Sisters and Brothers, Last month, I gave an overview of all the amazing work the Lord has allowed us to accomplish over the past year and what we hope to continue to accomplish in the new year. This month, I want to announce a new initiative that could...

Discovering the Magi

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Jan 5, 2019 | Featured Authors

By Tom Edwards, Renewal Ministries’ Country Coordinator I’ve been doing a fresh study on the Wise Men who brought gifts to the child Jesus. Much of what we are led to believe about them has little basis in fact. Rather, they are usually portrayed according to what...

Learn from Prophets in Times of Crisis

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Dec 29, 2018 | Featured Authors

By Anthony Feola, Renewal Ministries' Country Coordinator In Training On Dec. 20, 2017, I wrote the following: “Be like Samuel with Eli, like David with Saul, and like Nathan with David.” As these phrases came to me, I committed them to prayer, sensing a unique...

Hope is a Who

by Debbie Herbeck | Dec 16, 2018 | Featured Authors

This article originally appeared on the blog for the Be Love Revolution, which you can view here. Many Decembers ago, in a small dorm room at the University of Michigan, a miracle happened. The God of the Universe broke into my selfish and sinful heart. That night...

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