So at what point are you told explicitly about what your family was engaged in?

When is it described to you and how?

Oh, I think I learned about it from before I could talk.

This is Dave Belden.

So I had these nightmares when I was four years old about the world coming to an end.

One was where I was out in space and I was looking at the world and I saw an explosion

happened in the center of the planet and then the planet would come apart and huge shards

of the planet, huge sort of quarters and eighths and so on of the planet, would fly out into space.

And I would wake up screaming and screaming.

And I've thought a lot about why I had those nightmares.

And I think part of the reason is what I was hearing all the time from my parents, my family, we were

all engaged in quote unquote remaking the world. And there's a tremendous urgency about

our work. Everybody was hyped up and intense about it. And I think that I felt the urgency

of changing the world from a very young age.

Dave Belden was born into an organization that was especially active in the middle of the 20th century called Moral Rearmament, or MRA.

It was a Christian organization that some of its own members would eventually describe as a cult.

MRA members believed that they were remaking the world by convincing powerful people, politicians,

labor leaders, CEOs, etc., to be guided by conscience and to listen to God.

I had never heard of moral rearmament before I met Dave, but now that I know a little bit more about the work they were engaged in at the peak of their influence,

I can see why they truly believed they were, in fact, remaking the world.

I'm Lloyd Lockridge, and this is Family Lore. We lived in a big house in London.

There were like 16 or 20 of us in the Mayfair district of London, very posh area.

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