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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Promise Keepers men’s movement has started unveiling its plans for more than 20 men’s conferences at sports arenas this year, including Oct. 18-19 in Jacksonville.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...