Initiatives et Changement
A number of "Oxford Groups" as well as individuals dissociated themselves from Buchman as a result of his launching of "Moral Re-Armament". Some "Oxford Group" members disapproved Buchman's attention to matters not purely personal, or his 'going into politics.' Buchman's view was that if "Moral Re-Armament" was the car, the "Oxford Group" was the engine, and that individual change was the basis of both. He had said to his students of Penn State and Hartford as early as 1921 that the "First Century Christian Fellowship" was "a program of life issuing in personal, social, racial, national and supernational change" or that it had "nothing to do with politics, yet everything to do with politics, because it leads to change in politicians". Nonetheless, while maintaining a lot of Christian language, "Moral Re-Armament" became inclusive of all shades of religious and philosophical convictions, Buchman comparing in a speech "Moral Re-Armament" to "the good road of an ideology inspired by God upon which all can unite. Catholic, Jew and Protestant, Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist and Confucianist - all find they can change, where needed and travel along this good road together".