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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Key Values of Renewal Ministries’ Missions

by Peter Herbeck | Mar 9, 2017 | Featured Authors

In early fall each year, we host a meeting of our Renewal Ministries Country Coordinators. They’re the group of talented and highly dedicated brothers and sisters that lead the nearly forty international, short-term missions we are able to do each year, thanks to your...

Gumuz Tribe Experiences Conversion

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Feb 28, 2017 | Uncategorized

By Lloyd Greenhaw, Renewal Ministries' Country Coordinator During a recent mission to Ethiopia, we proclaimed the Gospel to unbaptized people just starting their journey to Christ. We felt like true missionaries! At the request of Bishop Lesanu-Christos Matheos, we...

Letting God Fill the Hole in Our Hearts

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Feb 24, 2017 | Featured Authors

The following post recently appeared in the blog for Be Love Revolution. By Claire Vogel Each and every one of us, whether we know it or not, possesses that inexplicable God-shaped hole in our hearts. Most people know it’s there, and some try to ignore it. Some pour...

The Final Confrontation

by Ralph Martin | Feb 21, 2017 | Featured Authors, Uncategorized

Ralph Martin's article The Final Confrontation recently was published online at the Homiletic and Pastoral Review. I must say things are getting crazier—wicked crazier. I’ve heard recently of two different sets of parents telling friends of mine, when asked about...

Thank the Lord Always: Blessed be His Name!

by Ralph Martin | Feb 17, 2017 | Featured Authors, Uncategorized

Dearly Beloved, Beloved of God, and beloved of us at Renewal Ministries. We are constantly being overwhelmed by your faithful support—some of you from way back in 1981!! When I sign the thank you letters, I am deeply moved and thank God for you. Many of you probably...

A Student Remembers Fr. Michael Scanlan

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Feb 7, 2017 | Featured Authors

President Emeritus of the Franciscan University of Steubenville Father Michael Scanlan, TOR, passed away on Jan. 7, 2017. According to the university, “His leadership as president transformed Franciscan University from a struggling regional college into a...

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