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.

“It was almost a movement to, for lack of a better way of putting it, to maybe ‘tenderize’ men somewhat,” said Merritt. “I feel like Promise Keepers was very much pushing back against ...

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.

Christians should not be racist, he added, but “we’re not going to become the next social justice movement.” To some leaders of Promise Keepers’ first iteration, the contrast between the t ...

And in four years the movement has burgeoned. Last year, it attracted a total of 280,000 men to conferences in seven cities. This year, Promise Keepers expect to double that by filling stadiums in ...

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. The movement ...

Ken Harrison says new men’s movement will continue pursuing racial reconciliation. Racism and racial division remain a priority for Promise Keepers. The newest iteration of the men’s movement ...

But things were different for “Ignite and Unite,” the rollout of PK 2.0. This time, the ladies were invited too, a sign of the movement’s reinvention. Promise Keepers will remain a men’s ministry, but ...

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.