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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Roots of the Charismatic Renewal

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Jun 14, 2017 | Featured Authors

https://cbnudspmd-a.akamaihd.net/hd/734546207001/2017/06/734546207001_5465864710001_5465825900001.mp4 *Note: The broadcast times were changed after this post was published. The post has been edited to reflect the correct times. The 700 Club has produced a...

The Lord Wants YOU to be a Saint!

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Jun 13, 2017 | Featured Authors

This post originally appeared on the i.d.9:16 blog. By Ali Hoffman September 5th, 2016 was a brutally hot day. There wasn’t a cloud in sight and absolutely no wind. There were hundreds of thousands of people crammed into a little space and some had been awake since...

The Light Shines in the Darkness

by Ralph Martin | Jun 11, 2017 | Featured Authors, Uncategorized

Ralph Martin shared some of his own testimony as part of his talk at Renewal Ministries' 2017 Gathering: “I was in danger, but I didn’t know I was in danger. I once saw a tow truck passing by, they called them wreckers, and I really felt that the wrecker was coming...

Strategies for Engaging the Next Generation

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Jun 8, 2017 | Featured Authors, Uncategorized

This article originally appeared in Renewal Ministries' June 2017 newsletter, which you can access here. You can listen to the talk here. Pete Burak and Debbie Herbeck led a workshop at the Renewal Ministries' Gathering on a topic that touches the lives of many:...

Join Monthly Telephone Rosary for Missions

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Jun 5, 2017 | Featured Authors, Uncategorized

Join us in a monthly rosary for Renewal Ministries' mission work! Renewal Ministries' supporters Mike and Kathleen O'Donnell have offered to lead a rosary over the phone on the first Tuesday of every month at 7:30 p.m. ET. We will pray for Renewal Ministries'...

The Confirmation/Pentecost Connection

by Ralph Martin | Jun 3, 2017 | Featured Authors

The following post is excerpted from a paper Ralph Martin presented in Rome this week for the fiftieth anniversary of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal. You can read the entire paper here. As I’ve spoken to youth ministers, religious education directors, and pastors in...

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