10th September 2024 | 18:00 – 19:30 BST
Join Denis Nowlan, Executive Director of IofC UK, in conversation with Dr Grace France as they discuss her research on the history of Moral Re-Armament (MRA), highlighting its significance as an innovative Christian movement that navigated the modern world and the changing, pluralistic landscape of religion.
Dr Grace France completed her PhD in Philosophy from University of Birmingham. Her research, ‘A New World Spelt Out in New Men’: Faith and Moral Re-Armament, c. 1920-1970, explores the beginnings and development of Moral Re-Armament’s unique style of faith in Twentieth Century Britain. From its theoretical influences, its devoted members, its mass-media campaigns, and its various critics, her research offers an overview of how Moral Re-Armament adapted its Christian faith to a changing Britain. Her previous research during her BA and MA in History at the University of Birmingham explored the rise and fall of a key feature of the permissive turn in Twentieth Century Britain – The Sun’s Page Three – which inspired her to turn during her PhD to the portion of British society who stood in opposition to such changes, ultimately leading her to Moral Re-Armament. Having been raised in a Catholic family, she felt it important to shed light on those individuals not currently represented enough in the history of Modern Britain: those who adapted and continued their faith long after the supposed era of 1960s permissiveness and secularisation.
This event will be hosted in London at IofC UK, SW1P 1RD. In-person spaces for this event are limited and we will be operating on a first come first served basis.
This event will also be livestreamed.
