Stories tagged with: promise keepers

• Promise Keepers to add digital reach, local touch

  by Tim Tune, posted Friday, May 31, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

  ARLINGTON, Texas (BP) -- Promise Keepers, the Christian men's ministry that peaked in the late 1990s, will launch a "new era" at a national gathering July 31-Aug. 1, 2020, at AT&T Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys in Arlington, Texas.

  Registration for the conference starts at 12:01 a.m. Saturday (June 1, 2019) at promisekeepers.org. Read More

• 2 letters that shaped my faith & career

  by G. Richard Hastings, posted Monday, February 25, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

  BP file photo.

  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP) -- In the 1990s, Promise Keepers (PK) became a Christian phenomenon reaching tens of thousands of men through the ministry of Bill McCartney, former coach of the University of Colorado football team.

  Promise Keepers' purpose was to evangelize men to become believers in the Messiah and better husbands and fathers. While incredibly successful, it had detractors who claimed that its message and attitudes were misogynistic and homophobic. In the context of the PK event in Kansas City, my faith and effort to live my faith in my profession were seriously tested. Read More