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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What’s Up with Them? Engaging Millennials

by Pete Burak | Aug 4, 2016 | Featured Authors, Pete Burak

This article is taken from a presentation Pete Burak recently gave to the Cincinnati chapter of Legatus. Please contact him at pete@id916.com if you are interested in having him share this message with your group or organization. Much ink has been spilled analyzing,...

Evangelization Needs a Game Changer

by Pete Burak | Aug 1, 2016 | Pete Burak, Uncategorized

Renewal Ministries recently released Game Changer, a booklet by i.d.9:16 Director Pete Burak. Below, Pete reflects on the inspiration behind Game Changer, which examines how a close relationship with the Holy Spirit is the key to fruitful engagement in the New...

Jesus Does Still Heal!

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Jul 23, 2016 | Featured Authors

At the 2016 Renewal Ministries’ Gathering, long-time supporter Larry Yelinek, of Whitmore Lake, Michigan, experienced a tremendous healing of his hip. He writes about the experience below: In the spring of 2013, my right hip started to become painful, and by the...

Striking the Last Blow Against Pride

by Jack Lynch | Jul 21, 2016 | Featured Authors

Every day at Renewal Ministries’ office, we pray the Angelus together at noon, as a way of interceding for both our own needs and those of others who request our prayers. I think of it as “bundling” our requests and having the Mother of God present them to Jesus....

See Ralph Martin on EWTN Live!

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Jul 19, 2016 | Uncategorized

Ralph Martin will be the guest on the EWTN flagship program Live with Fr. Mitch Pacwa on Wednesday, July 20 from 8-9 p.m. Eastern Time. Ralph will be discussing with Fr. Mitch the truth about mercy. The second half hour of the program will be devoted to answering...

Redeemed: How God Saved a Marriage

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Jul 16, 2016 | Featured Authors

In recent years, God has both saved Bruce and Julia Rooke’s marriage and brought them back into the Catholic faith. We are grateful Renewal Ministries has been one of His tools in this great work. We pray their story fills you with wonder at God’s abundant mercy—and...

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