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.

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 ...

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.

People raise their hands in prayer and worship at the Promise Keepers “Stand in the Gap'' rally on Oct. 4, 1997, at the National Mall in Washington, D.C..

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, 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 ...

Asked if the Promise Keepers’ longtime emphasis on men’s leadership might be seen by some as a threat to women’s rights, Harrison said his organization is telling men, not women, how to behave.

Asked if the Promise Keepers’ longtime emphasis on men’s leadership might be seen by some as a threat to women’s rights, Harrison said his organization is telling men, not women, how to behave.