Cover Story Sidebar | Last October I sat in the Memphis Liberty Bowl a Promise Keepers
skeptic. Having come to examine the phenomenon firsthand, I thumbed
through my program booklet with a critical eye. Printed on a page
titled "Core Values" was the PK statement of faith, summed up in
five solidly evangelical points. In spite of PK's charismatic
flavor, I was basically impressed. I wanted to be impressed.
Although the teaching seemed theologically homogenized, I was
looking for things to affirm. I left Memphis