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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by Renewal Ministries Staff | Dec 3, 2016 | Uncategorized

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by Renewal Ministries Staff | Dec 1, 2016 | Featured Authors

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by Sister Ann Shields | Nov 24, 2016 | Featured Authors

While recently reading President Abraham Lincoln's original proclamation that set aside the fourth Thursday of November as a day of national thanksgiving—for our country, for our families, and for our friends, I was struck by the profound lessons it can still teach us...

“A Crisis of Truth” Available on YouTube

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Nov 20, 2016 | Featured Authors, Uncategorized

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74RyP6rsJqs&list=PLLK1vk61R6yhUx1OfrwxxIk2euZzskvV_ Renewal Ministries’ recently added a series of stunningly prophetic talks to its YouTube channel! These talks were originally given more than thirty years ago by Ralph Martin and later...

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