Moral Re-Armament (MRA, or sometimes Buchmanism) is an international Christian movement that was founded as the Oxford Group by Frank N. D. Buchman (a prominent Christian Evangelist from the United States), and a group of Oxford students the 1920s. It is also the title of a book Moral Rearmament (The Battle for Peace), edited by H. W. Austin in 1938, the same year that the Oxford Group was becoming Moral Re-Armament. It is one of the first uses of the term.

The movement is primarily protestant, and is based around what it called 'the Four Absolutes’ (honesty, purity, unselfishness, love) and encouraged its members to be actively involved in political and social issues, while remaining in their own churches.

In 2001, it changed its name to Initiatives of Change.

External links

• Initiatives of Change homepage
• Timeline of MRA and related organizations