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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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...

A Trip Through the Land of Saints and Martyrs

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Dec 7, 2018 | Featured Authors

"The world is charged with the grandeur of God.” – Gerard Manley Hopkins By Bruce Rooke After two weeks in the land of saints and martyrs, we touched back down in Detroit. Peter and Debbie Herbeck, and my wife Julia, and I had hopped through Hungary, Slovakia,...

Casting Nets: Prayers for Healing in the RCIA

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

The following article is the third in a series called “Casting Nets” that will run over the coming weeks. They are written by “John,” a student in one of Ralph Martin’s New Evangelization classes, and document several evangelization opportunities he has performed in...

Meeting Jesus for the First Time

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Nov 13, 2018 | Featured Authors

The following article is the second in a series called “Casting Nets” that will run over the coming weeks. They are written by “John,” a student in one of Ralph Martin’s New Evangelization classes, and document several evangelization opportunities he has performed in...

‘Do Not Be Afraid to Witness the Truth’

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Nov 8, 2018 | Featured Authors

This letter is our Blessed Mother's message for the world, given to Mirjana Solda in Medjugorje, on Nov. 2, 2018. You also can find it at Sr. Emmanuel Maillard's website, here. Dear Children, My motherly heart suffers as I am looking at my children who do not...

Witnessing Renewal in France

by Dr. Mary Healy | Nov 6, 2018 | Featured Authors

By Carolyn Kitz I joined Dr. Mary Healy for the first half of a month-long “tour de France,” in which she spoke in seven different locations about the Holy Spirit, healing, deliverance, and the gifts of the Spirit in evangelization. Many hearts were encouraged, and...

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