Moral Re-Armament

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Moral Re-Armament (i.e., MRA). Before 1938 the Oxford Group Movement, founded by Frank Buchman. Its largest organizations are now in the USA, Britain, Japan, and Switzerland. Its message, at home among conservative evangelical Christians, is the need for a moral awakening to reconvert the world.

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