Is rediscovering Christian values the key to fixing society?

A new coalition of influencers, including Jordan Peterson, Miriam Cates MP and Baroness Stroud, believe that in order to solve the West’s problems, we must return to our Judeo-Christian foundations. Heather Tomlinson reports from the inaugural ARC conference

“We’ve seen an unravelling of the pillars on which our societies are built and a collapsing of the way in which we interact with one another - it’s time for us to rediscover the better story,” exhorted Baroness Philippa Stroud passionately to a packed hall.

She was opening the inaugural conference of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) last week, which drew 1,500 politicians, artists, journalists, academics and business leaders from all over the world.

Unusually, many conservatives and Christians were included. While they stopped short of explicitly advocating for Christian faith or doctrine, the unifying message was that we must return to a Judeo-Christian worldview and all that was good in traditional Western civilisation.