He founded the Promise Keepers in 1990. The group’s first meeting drew 4,200 men to a basketball court in Boulder. He drew more attention, and criticism, in 1992, when he was a leading proponent ...

(RNS) — A religious conversion in his 30s helped inspire McCartney to found Promise Keepers, which drew millions of men to events in the early 1990s. (RNS) — Bill McCartney, a former college ...

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.