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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A Fathers’ Day Tribute

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Jun 18, 2017 | Featured Authors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpxxxbHNstQ We want to honor all fathers this Fathers' Day with this episode of The Choices We Face, featuring i.d. 9:16 Director Pete Burak's parents, Chris and Emily Burak. "Everything in our life, we tried to look at through...

To Have the Light of Life

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Jun 16, 2017 | Featured Authors

This post originally appeared in Renewal Ministries' June 2017 newsletter, which you can view here. In Peter Herbeck's talk on To Have the Light of Light at Renewal Ministries' 2017 Gathering, he discussed how an intense “battle for human souls” is taking place in the...

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:...

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