It was an autumn Saturday in 1997, and Promise Keepers, a fast-growing conservative Christian men’s ministry that some warned was a covert political project, had gathered at its biggest event ever.
“Why are we here?” Mr. Phillips, then the organization’s president, asked the hundreds of thousands of men in attendance.
“Is it to demonstrate political might?
Is it to take back the nation by imposing our religious values on others?
This weekend, a much smaller group of Promise Keepers gathered in Tulsa, Okla., at a very different moment for evangelicals — with less decisive answers to those questions.
Persons:
Randy Phillips, Mr, Phillips
Organizations:
U.S . Capitol, Christian
Locations:
Tulsa, Okla