Help Me, Ronda!

In this episode of Help Me, Ronda!, Ronda Chervin talks about her book Becoming a Handmaid of the Lord.From the journals of Ronda De Sola Chervin (written between 1977-1996), this autobiographical book explores a life of love and loss from a widow, mother, grandmother, professor of philosophy and theology, an international speaker and author of some forty-five books (at the time of writing) about Catholic living.https://enroutebooksandmedia.com/becomingahandmaid/

In this episode of Help Me, Ronda!, Ronda Chervin talks about her book Spiritual Friendship.Spiritual Friendship: Darkness and Light was first published in 1992. The goal is to help those in spiritual friendships to understand the graces but also the pitfalls of such bonds. Stages: Attraction, Rejection or Mutuality, Enchantment, and Union are described. Readers have been helped with the despair that sometimes comes with rejection and with an enchantment that can combine with psychological co-dependency issues to become harmful and sometimes devastating. By contrast there are examples from the spiritual friendships of saints to encourage paths that lead, instead, to holiness. Ronda Chervin, professor of philosophy, Catholic television and radio presenter, and author of many books, is candid about her own struggles in the area of spiritual friendship. She is happy that her book that has helped so many in the past will now be available to new readers.Spiritual Friendship: Darkness and Light by Dr. Ronda Chervin | En Route Books and Media

In this episode of Help Me, Ronda!, Ronda Chervin talks about her book Quotable Saints.These memorable quotes of the saints and hundreds more are uniquely organized by theme in this uplifting treasury. In each chapter, you follow a particular theme and journey with the saints as they provide just the right word of wisdom or encouragement in wrestling with doubt and triumph in faith – in experiencing a range of emotion, including sadness and joy, anger and peace, courage and fear. Brief introductions to each chapter provide a couple of stories from the lives of saints that model the journey for us. Quotable Saints is an inspiring treasury for devotional reading and an invaluable reference for teachers and pastors, at home or in the office.Quotable Saints | En Route Books and Media

In this episode of Help Me, Ronda! Ronda Chervin talks about her husband, Martin's, book Children of the Breath (April 11, 2026)Martin Chervin, Ronda’s husband, became a Catholic at the age of sixty, after decades of struggling with doubt. His way of resolving his doubt was to ponder the battle between Satan and Christ during the forty days in the desert for the prize of the human soul. Is it worth the gamble for the children of the breath to reject Satan and all the worldly goods he promises to follow the Lamb of God? Readers are challenged to make their own decision.Children of the Breath: A Dialogue in the Desert | En Route Books and Media

In this episode of Help Me, Ronda!, Ronda Chervin talks about her novel The Messiah of the Metro Cafe.It was 9:00 A.M., October 24, 2022. The reporters of the Catholic Weekly of Los Angeles met in the chief editor’s office for their special assignments. “This cult leader is influencing some St. Mark’s seminarians from his throne in a nearby café.” “I’ll take that one,” Teresa grinned enthusiastically. And so began the conversion of Michael Kaufman.https://enroutebooksandmedia.com/metrocafe/

In this episode of Help Me, Ronda!, Catholic author Ronda Chervin talks about her book Feminine, Free, & Faithful.Should women be feminine and forget about liberation? Or should they reject femininity as a euphemism for slavery? Women seeking fulfillment, says Chervin, aren’t faced with this either-or, but with the challenge to be both; and faithfulness to God is the key to unfolding this feminine and free personality. Chervin’s insights deserve serious consideration from Christian women – and men.https://enroutebooksandmedia.com/feminine-free-and-faithful/

In this episode of Help Me, Ronda! co-authors Ronda Chervin and David Dowd talk about their book Always a New Beginning.RONDA: Life is a broken field of dreams for some of us. Loved ones, experience, accidents, illness, old age… each inflicting pain and suffering according to circumstance. Some of us emerge with scars on the outside and inside. We can live on the inside looking through our broken shard of glass at our lives.DAVE: But, you might learn you CAN make a new beginning. Some of us who struggle to remain faithful through our pain like I did can begin, now! So, I invite you to join me in meeting up with Ronda Chervin. I invite you to join us in this life giving adventure along the roads of honesty and truth as we rediscover His Plan in our own journey, as Saint Benedict said, “Always a New Beginning.”https://enroutebooksandmedia.com/alwaysanewbeginning/

In this episode of Help Me, Ronda! Ronda Chervin provides an overview of her book Soundbytes of Love: The Philosophical Spirituality of Ronda Chervin. This book is an anthology of soundbytes — 77 to be exact — drawn from almost one hundred philosophical works of Ronda Chervin written over the past half century. Why 77? It’s a number signifying the triumph of the spirit over matter and the personal freedom to pursue things of interest. That’s the goal for our readers – to set their souls free to partake in a spiritual journey to a more authentic self. Readers will engage a soundbyte a day, journaling as they go, trying to live by the spiritual truth expressed over the course of their time with it before advancing to the next soundbyte.77 Soundbytes of Love: The Philosophical Spirituality of Ronda Chervin | En Route Books and Media

In this episode of Help Me, Ronda!, Ronda Chervin talks about her book Taming the Lion Within.Five steps to help people overcome uncontrolled or over-reactive anger. Steps include admitting being angry person: identifying the anger: physical, psychological and spiritual perspectives about causes of the bad kind of anger: dealing with anger day by day: and letting Jesus bring the lion to lie down with the lamb. (workbook – 59 pp.) Listen to an Interview by Mary Schwarz on the Rivers of Living Water program at WCAT Radio.https://enroutebooksandmedia.com/tamingthelion/

In this episode of Help Me, Ronda! Ronda Chervin talks with Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, about their co-authored book Why be an Atheist If...? (February 28, 2026)Who is an atheist? A person who is convinced that there is no God.Who is an agnostic? A person who thinks there is no way to know if there is a God or there is not a God.Who is a doubter? Usually a person raised to think there is a God who is not sure if that is true.Who is a seeker? A person who is open to belief in any reality that others present as truly real.Who is a theist? A person who is convinced that there is a God.Why Be An Atheist If??? is an adaptation of Catholic Realism put together primarily for atheists but also offering many answers for agnostics, doubters, and seekers.

In this episode of Help Me, Ronda!, Ronda Chervin talks about her book The Comic Catholic. (February 21, 2026)In this witty, literary stand-up routine, Ronda Chervin takes a bow to a key property of the human person as understood in our philosophical anthropology, namely, that of risibility. It is a trademark of our humanity that we were made not only to find wonder in the ironies of this world, but also to laugh at them loudly, boisterously, and even wryly.The Comic Catholic | En Route Books and Media

In this episode of Help Me, Ronda!, Ronda Chervin talks about her book The Way of Love. A reprint of Dr. Ronda’s The Way of Love: The Battle for Inner Transformation, this new edition under a new subtitle puts back in front of the world the nature of human love alongside human passion as told from the perspective of a woman who has deeply experienced both.All of us hope that others think of us as loving persons. But do we really have nothing but love in our hearts: how about anger, anxiety, despair, annoyance, the blahs…?Learn from Dr. Ronda’s The Way of Love how to understand different types of love, how to overcome obstacles to love with the grace of God, and how to make loving moral decisions. Respond to the challenge of becoming more loving day by day as a spiritual marathon runner.The Way of Love: The Path of Inner Transformation | En Route Books and Media

In this episode of Help Me, Ronda, Dr. Ronda Chervin talks about her book The Crisis in the Church.Because of the crisis in the Church, quite a number of books have been written by Catholic thinkers with the highest credentials about how to approach the rapidly growing divisions. This book, written in the breezily dialogic manner of a wizened (I mean wise) octogenarian reconstructing the deepening rifts within our Catholic Church, seeks to encounter a wound that only Christ can heal if we are but open to the grace He freely provides.The Crisis in the Church | En Route Books and Media

In this episode of "Help Me, Ronda," Dr. Ronda Chervin talks about her book entitled Victory Over Death: Foretastes of Eternity in Prayer. This beautiful little book is meant for all of us — because no one can escape the mystery of death. To nourish trust in God and overcome our fears, the author teaches us to immerse ourselves in God’s great love, a love which has gone to the greatest lengths to open the doors to the Kingdom.https://enroutebooksandmedia.com/victoryoverdeath/

Episode 1: Help Me, Ronda (January 24, 2026)