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Moral Re-Armament

American  
[ree-ahr-muh-muhnt] / riˈɑr mə mənt /

noun

  1. a worldwide movement initiated by Frank Buchman in 1938 as a successor to the Oxford Group, and maintaining that the practice of high morality in public and private life is the key to world betterment. MRA


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“I need some — what did they use to call it, the MRA people, what was their name? What was it, the Moral Re-Armament? A quiet time.”

From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2018

Moral Re-Armament or MRA was a modern, nondenominational movement founded by an American evangelical fundamentalist which extolled “the four absolutes: honesty, purity, unselfishness and love”.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 16, 2017

When you were 7, your parents took you away from your life in Greenwich and joined a conservative religious cult, Moral Re-Armament.

From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2017

For many years it was owned by the Moral Re-Armament movement, which used it to present shows with a moral or spiritual message.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2012

On the way, Moral Re-Armament astonished Washington by the tone of a morality play called The Vanishing Island, which it is presenting in the Asian capitals.

From Time Magazine Archive

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