Buchman, Frank Nathan Daniel

Buchman, Frank Nathan Daniel (1878-1961), an American clergyman, founded the Oxford group in the 1920’s. This became the Moral Re-Armament movement in 1938. Buchman served as a Lutheran pastor in Philadelphia. In 1908, he felt “religiously reborn” at the Keswick Conference in England. After 1922, he became an evangelist to change society by converting its social and political leaders through personal evangelism. He was born in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania.