They are not wealthy, nor are they poor. They are insecure, caught in a changing world that threatens their beliefs. Racial tensions are high. Church attendance, especially by men, is down. Women are gaining the vote.
Evolution is taught in the schools.
Liberal Protestantism seems to be winning the day. They seek to defend their place in the family, the country, and the proper values. As a student of the various men's movements, I had been following the Promise Keepers movement since the early 1990s, and I was not about to let a local gathering occur without attending. Besides, my publisher, who lives in Boulder, asked me to include the Promise Keepers in the second edition of Contemporary Perspectives on Masculinity . The best account I had found of earlier, evangelical men's movements is provided by William G. McLoughlin's Modern Revivalism, Charles Grandison Finney to Billy Graham .