From Harmon Leon's "Infiltrator" column comes his almost Juvenalian first-person reporting on The Promise Keepers, "The Manly Men of God."
"If you want to truly change the world, change the men, states the Promise Keepers' literature. (Sorry, ladies.) This weekend is designed to "expose a list of lies of the world against our manhood." Holy shit, not only are people lying to men, but manhood is also on the line!
Who started the Promise Keepers in 1990? Why, the head coach of the University of Colorado football team, of course -- a manly man doing a manly profession. As far as filling arenas goes, the Promise Keepers are the AC/DC of men-only, Jesus-centered events. Touring 20 cities around the country, with ticket prices at $89, filling up larger outdoor stadiums with upward of 40,000 people, the Promise Keepers are holy big business.
What separates me (a man) from most of these men (not women) is I'm in the inner circle for this weekend's arena event. That's right, phoning a few days earlier, I volunteered to be on the Promise Keepers Prayer Team.
Read the entire article here.
The Promise Keepers are also briefly mentioned in John Sugg's piece, "A Nation Under God," in the current special issue of Mother Jones, which hit the newsstands and went online on November 21, 2005.
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