Six years after a college football coach decided Christian men needed their own, new kind of ministry, the evangelical Promise Keepers movement has swept past obstacles like a halfback on the loose.

Massing in the nation’s capital, hundreds of thousands strong, the men who fuel the evangelical movement Promise Keepers have become a great Rorschach test of American religion. In Saturday’s ...

c. 1997 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Promise Keepers, the evangelical men's movement that began as a football coach's dream, breaks into the ...

The Hartford conference, set for Aug. 20 and 21, will be the first Promise Keepers arena event in Connecticut, and the first event in New England to be produced by the movement’s national staff.

Promise Keepers has grown from 4,000 men in 1990 to 250,000 men. The last of six rallies this season will be held in Boulder, Colo., July 29 and 30, and is expected to draw 50,000 participants.

Racism and racial division remain a priority for Promise Keepers. The newest iteration of the men’s movement is led by Ken Harrison, a former Los Angeles police officer and the CEO of the donor ...

Promise Keepers in the 1990s “wanted as many men as possible to come through the gates and participate in this movement,” said Kristin Kobes Du Mez, a historian who has written about ...

Promise Keepers, the burgeoning movement that weds nondenominational Christianity to male responsibility in mass ceremonies, is filling every seat in St. Petersburg’s Thunderdome stadium this ...

Bill McCartney, the former University of Colorado football coach who became a prominent religious figure in the 1990s after founding the Promise Keepers movement, died Friday at the age of 84.

Bill McCartney, Coach Who Led a Movement for ‘Godly’ Men, Dies at 84. After transforming the University of Colorado’s football team, he founded the Promise Keepers, a masculine revivalist ...

Promise Keepers’ 2021 rally at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, was its biggest in-person event in 20 years. The evangelical men’s organization will hold a conference in Tulsa this week.