What happened to The Oxford Group?

Question: Does The Oxford Group still exist? What happened to it and can I still join?

Answer: In a way you can still join The Oxford Group, in some fashion or another it has never stopped going.

AA grew in part out of The Oxford Group, a Christian group by Frank Buchman, a Lutheran Minister around the year 1919. The first group was loosely called A First Century Christian Fellowship and the Oxford Group name was later attached to the fellowship due to coincidental affiliation with Oxford, England.

Soon after the start of AA, The Oxford Group in the USA was renamed to Moral Re-Armament in 1938. It became more widely known as MRA. In England, Oxford Groups continue to exist and follow the original tenets of the movement more closely than the groups descendant from MRA.

In 2001 MRA changed its name to Initiatives of Change and can be found today on the Web at: http://www.initiativesofchange.org. Today, Initiatives of Change bears little resemblance to the original fellowship in structure, belief or practice.