Help Me, Ronda!

In this episode of Help Me, Ronda! Ronda Chervin talks about her book Floating to the Shore of Eternity: Last Journals of Ronda Chervin (2022-2024) (July 4, 2026) One of the most wonderful images I thought I received from Jesus in the 8th decade of my life was this: “Stop dog-paddling in the waves of life and let Me float you to the shore of eternity.” Gradually I have slowed down on speaking at c...

In this episode of Help Me, Ronda!, Ronda Chervin talks about her book, co-authored with Al Hughes, titled Escaping Anxiety: Along the Road to Spiritual Joy. Escaping Anxiety: Along the Road to Spiritual Joy is not a “simple” book of advice that could prove ineffective because it's too “pat.” Instead, it evolved into something that could actually be a new genre! How so? Well, have you ever seen a...

In this episode of Help Me, Ronda! Ronda Chervin talks about her book Weeping with Jesus. (June 20, 2026) In the past the word grief was used only to describe the sorrow of loss through death. Nowadays pain coming from other kinds of losses such as rejection and divorce are also seen to involve grieving. Even though Weeping with Jesus is not designed to help with such forms of grief, what you read...

In this episode of Help Me, Ronda!, Ronda Chervin talks about her book Voyage to Insight. En Route Books and Media has reprinted Ronda Chervin and Lois Janis’ book Voyage to Insight with fresh, exciting graphics. It can be read straight through or you can add your own insights into the book and even dialogue about your ideas with Dr. Ronda online at chervinronda@gmail.com. Seeking truth but not su...

In this episode of Help Me, Ronda!, Ronda Chervin talks about her book En Route to Eternity. Autobiography of Ronda Chervin, Ph. D. Widow, mother, grandmother, Jewish convert, international speaker, Professor of Philosophy, co-founder along with Msgr. Eugene Kevane, David Moss and others of the Association of Hebrew Catholics in the U.S. https://www.amazon.com/En-Route-Eternity-Story-Life/dp/09394...

In this episode of Help Me, Ronda! filmed on location with Ronda Chervin concerning her book The Girl Who Became a Cat, author and illustrator, Kathy Campitelli, delights a live audience with their tale. When Melinda’s family evacuates during a Los Angeles fire, she stays behind to save her beloved cats. Faced with danger, she prays for help–and, in a mysterious transformation, becomes like them t...

In this episode of Help Me, Ronda!, Ronda Chervin talks about her book The Battle for the 20th-Century Mind. In The Battle for the 20th Century Mind, philosopher Ronda Chervin examines the defining ideological struggles that shaped modern thought, contrasting influential secular thinkers with Christian defenders of truth and human dignity. Through compelling intellectual pairings—including Russell...

In this episode of Help Me, Ronda!, Ronda Chervin talks about her book Healing of Rejection with the Help of the Lord, A Survivor’s Guide. “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. By the LORD has this been done; it is wonderful in our eyes.” Psalm 118: 22-23. Dr. Ronda Chervin’s Healing of Rejection with the Help of the Lord: A Survivor’s Guide was written to help others move o...

In this episode of Help Me, Ronda! Ronda Chervin talks about her book Spirituality for All Times: Readings from the Catholic Classics. (May 16, 2026) Spirituality for All Times is offered in the hope that it will inspire those who seek a deeper union with God. The authors have chosen to offer short selections to enable the reader to wade in from the shallow end of the pool, so to speak, until they...

 In this episode of Help Me, Ronda!, Ronda Chervin talks about her book Charles Rich: Give Me Your Heart–Preparing for Eternal Life. How about a book for the elderly by a sage who was still making disciples in his nineties? Who was this Charles Rich, anyhow? One of the most fascinating Hebrew-Catholics of all times was Charles Rich (1899-1998). Born in Hungary in a Jewish village similar to the on...

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...

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...

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 experienc...

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 wor...

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 enthusiastic...

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 fem...

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...

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 persona...

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...

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 w...

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,...

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 a...

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 deepenin...

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...

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