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.

Just because Promise Keepers no longer fills stadiums doesn’t mean men’s ministry is dead. Far from it. The Christian men’s movement was never as big as some imagined, nor is it now as small ...

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 ...

“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 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 ...

Whatever happened to Promise Keepers? PK was one of the most visible and controversial religious movements of the 1990s. It burst onto the scene in the early years of that decade, determined to change ...

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.