Moral Re-Armament

[ree-ahr-muh-muhnt]

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

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.

Read more on 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.

Read more on 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.”

Read more on 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”.

Read more on 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.

Read more on New York Times