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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Sr. Ann Reflects on the Road to Emmaus

by Sister Ann Shields | Apr 20, 2017 | Featured Authors

Image Credit Happy Easter Thursday! To celebrate this season of joy, we want to share with our readers a brief reflection from Sr. Ann Shields on the Road to Emmaus, Luke 24:1-50. Please read the passage and then mediate on her thoughts below. This passage is an...

“Fearless”: Proclaim Good News with Power

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Apr 12, 2017 | Featured Authors, Uncategorized

A new documentary airs online Divine Mercy weekend that features Ralph Martin, Dr. Mary Healy, Fr. Mathias Thelen, and a hunger to see more of God's power at work in evangelization. Fearless is a compelling journey of discovery to find the missing piece of the New...

Fr. Ubald Shares Message of Forgiveness

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Apr 6, 2017 | Featured Authors

Fr. Ubald Rugirangoga will be at guest at this year's Gathering. By Lloyd Greenhaw and Katsey Long Our time in Rwanda with an amazing and gifted team was very rich, but one especially beautiful fruit to come of our time there was our relationship with Fr. Ubald...

Livestream Ralph Martin’s Gathering Talk

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Apr 5, 2017 | Featured Authors

Are you unable to attend this year's Gathering? Fortunately, part of the Gathering can come to you! For the first time ever, Renewal Ministries will be live streaming Ralph Martin's talk on Friday night. Ralph will kick off the Gathering with his talk, The Light...

Living with a Daniel Heart

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Apr 4, 2017 | Featured Authors, Uncategorized

The following post originally appeared on i.d.9:16's blog. By Joey McCoy "Bear one another's burdens" (Gal 6:2). What are the burdens that people in our community, Church, and family walk around with? They are myriad and unique to each individual. In some way or...

The Catholic Church in a “Change of Ages”

by Peter Herbeck | Apr 1, 2017 | Featured Authors

The Church today is living through challenging times characterized by dramatic change. In the words of Pope Francis, “We are not living through an age of change; we are living through a change of the ages.” What does he mean by “a change of the ages”? St. John...

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