Alliance for Responsible Citizenship
A welcome vehicle for defending western Christian civilization
In recent days I had the privilege of attending an invitation-only gathering of about 1500 leaders from 70 nations. This first event was mostly composed of Europe, USA, Australia and Canada countries, but will likely expand to be truly global.
The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) was largely brought together through the influence of popular clinical psychologist and professor/speaker Jordan Peterson (who I had the opportunity to meet earlier this year) working with UK Baroness Philippa Stroud, and Sir Paul Marshall a UK member of the House of Lords, other leaders involved in media and education, former Prime Minister of Australia John Anderson, and several others.
The official definition of ARC is “an international community with a vision for a better world where every citizen can prosper, contribute, and flourish.”
Although it was not only for Christians, it was almost universally people of faith, and Peterson himself, not known for being a Christian, strongly identified the importance of Christianity in Western Civilization. Not only its past but its future as well. This Christian affirmation (even on a personal level) was expressed as well by people such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born woman, who fled her native religion and culture, became member of parliament in the Netherlands, and now a research fellow at the Hoover Institution in USA.
The ARC conference was focused on the foundations that western civilization was built upon. Ideas of truth, good, beauty, the natural family, individual responsibility, free enterprise, protecting women, and justice that every one of the 100+ speakers were bold to proclaim as still true and worth defending.
I personally met about 15 members of parliaments across Europe plus former prime ministers, etc.
And I believe it was the most impressive collection of messages over 3 days that I think I have ever heard in my entire life. (And I have been to multitudes of conferences over the past 50 years!)
My friend Marc Nuttle, a strategic economist, businessman and political strategist, said that his main take-away was that this event made it possible for leaders to publicly and proudly stand for western civilization. It has been under attack by every sector in recent times and we must now find our voice in its favor. But the big point was not just to be against things such as climate change, alternate genders and marriages, Marxism and socialism, etc. We must articulate a positive vision for the future and for solutions and that we can win back the world.
To this end this alliance hopes to connect many more people of influence. This has been much of the same vision that Dennis Peacocke and I have been gathering people around the world to do.
The world’s global elites have already been doing this for a long time and have found the funding to sustain it. It happens at the World Economic Forum and its Great Reset, or UN events that push agendas (like its 2030 Agenda) that sound good on the surface but are destructive of the natural family, small business, true ideas of justice, religious liberty, etc.
Our Global Transformation Network has been building local and national-level transformation teams from all sectors of society in countries around the world. From these we have been inviting the highest-placed ones in each region in summits for dialogue and planning in strategic areas. We did this in recent months in Asia/Pacific region for about 10 nations, and in Europe for about 14 or so nations, and in Africa for several nations.
But our summit last month for both North America and Central and South America was most significant. It was convened by an organization that we helped form called the Latin America Coalition for Human Rights and it drew over 18 nations and set key leaders down to work for several days on a 2040 Agenda for a Free World. Our gatherings are especially for Christian leaders. We have assembled in the past six months alone over 300 high level leaders ourselves from over 50 nations.
And now ARC is doing similar things. See its website www.ARCForum.com
There is a cry for action in a desperate fractured world, and God is on the move.
One of those who joined a private gathering we held in London prior to ARC was Os Guinness. He also spoke at ARC and contributed a paper that follows for paid subsribers, titled: Towards a Civil Public Square: Freedom of Religion and Diversity
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