Obscurity

As Moral Re-Armament faded into obscurity and became a forgotten footnote in history, the few remaining die-hards still defiantly proclaimed:

Those who try to silence Frank Buchman's voice can claim some success. But that voice can never be silenced for those of us who have heard it, or rather, those of us who, through Frank Buchman, learned to experiment with God — to listen to "the sound of a Voice coming from something not ourselves, in the existence of which we cannot disbelieve. Without it we are no more capable of saving the world than we were capable of creating it in the first place."
Experiment With God; Frank Buchman Reconsidered, Gösta Ekman, 1971, page 84.

The Moral Re-Armament organization has since languished, but still exists. MRA still maintains national offices in Washington D.C. and London, and still owns the large resort hotel/castle and estate in Caux, Switzerland. You can find them on the Internet at
http://www.caux.ch/ — the headquarters at Caux, Switzerland,
and
http://www.mra.org.uk/ — the British branch.

Oops! They changed their name yet again. Now they are calling themselves "Initiatives of Change", and their new URLs are:

• http://www.uk.initiativesofchange.org/ — UK

• http://www.forachange.co.uk/ — their British publication

• http://www.us.initiativesofchange.org/ — USA

• http://www.us.iofc.org/ — USA

• http://www.iofc.org/ — "Initiatives of Change"

• http://www.mra.org.au/ — MRA in Australia, redirects to http://www.au.iofc.org/ — Initiatives of Change, Australia

• http://www.afr-iofc.org/ — the African branch of Initiatives of Change

• http://www.mrakorea.or.kr/ — Korea
  (This one is so loaded with Macromedia Flash effects that it's worth checking out even though you won't understand many words of it. Sometimes propaganda is best viewed when the words can't fool your mind.
  Especially go to the Sing Out — Music link in the middle right-hand-side of the page, and listen to MRA propaganda songs in Korean.)

• http://www.ca.iofc.org/ — Canada

• http://www.iofc.dk/ — Denmark

• http://www.saunalahti.fi/finmra/index.html — Finland

• http://www.initiativesofchange.no/ — Norway
          http://www.initiativesofchange.no/nyverden.htm — information page

• http://www.initiativesofchange.nl/ — Netherlands
          http://www.initiativesofchange.nl/links.html — links to many more sites

• http://www.mraindia.org/ — India

They have many front groups, like

• http://www.cauxinitiativesforbusiness.org/home.htm — CAUX Initiatives for Business

• http://www.f-4-f.org/ — "Foundations for Freedom is an initiative of MRA (Moral Re-Armament) and is being carried out in association and teamwork with many other individuals and bodies."

• http://www.iofc.org/en/programs/cop/ — 'Creators of Peace' — "Inspired by the work of the international movement Initiatives of Change, formerly called Moral Re-Armament..."

• http://www.afl.iofc.org/ — Action for Life

• http://www.caux.ch/afr/ — Agenda for Reconciliation

• http://www.cauxroundtable.org/ — "Caux Round Table, charting a new course for business"

• http://www.hopeinthecities.org/ — "Hope in the Cities"

• http://www.icforum.org/ — International Communications Forum

• http://www.cauxscholars.org/ — Caux Scholars Program

• http://www.mra.org.au/openhomes-openhearts.htm — Australian "Open Homes, Open Hearts" program

A much less political web site is the museum of the Caux Grand Hotel:

http://www.musee-cauxexpo.ch/

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