Christian Social Responsibility

Christian Social Responsibility (CSR, Kristet Samhällsansvar) was a lobby organization that was founded in the mid-1950s in Sweden. The goal of the organisation was to get Christian politicians placed high up on the voting papers of the Swedish political parties.^[1] CSR had a grassroots network of active members across the entire nation and produced their own material. CSR formed the origin of the current Swedish party, the Christian Democrats.^[2]

The chairman of the organisation was Centre Party voter and bishop Sven Danell. Lewi Pethrus, a pentecostal pastor and later one of the founders of the Christian Democratic Party was another founder and vice chairman.^[2] Birger Ekstedt, later to become the chairman of the Christian Democratic Party, was the secretary of the organisation.