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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Example Sentences

Frank Buchman, founder of the conservative religious group called Moral Re-Armament, actually hinted that Hitler might be an agent of the divine.

From Washington Post

When she was seven, her parents enrolled the family in a conservative religious group called the Moral Re-Armament, which Close has described as a cultlike organization that dictated what she did, wore, and thought.

From The New Yorker

“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

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

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