Dr. Mark Eckel (MA, English, ThM, Old Testament, PhD, Social Science) is Executive Director of the Center for Biblical Integration at Liberty University. Dr. Eckel is also President of The Comenius Institute, a 501(c)(3) non-profit and has taught for 44 years, Jr. High through PhD.

Over four decades Dr. Eckel has served the education community as a high school teacher, college professor, grad school lecturer, curriculum writer, and international speaker. Dr. Eckel’s responsibilities have included daily instruction, program development, mentoring teachers, and conference speaking on education issues in hundreds of venues. Eckel was awarded Delta Chi Teacher of the Year in 1995 by Cedarville University, The Heart of Leadership Citation by Lenawee Christian School in 2010.

Three of Eckel’s original high school curricula are used around the world. His courses include Let God Be God on the nature of God and Timeless Truth, a defense for the Bible’s reliability. He also consulted with Chuck Colson in 2006 to develop a teenage church curriculum called Rewired. He has created and taught original courses and programs for schools such as Moody Bible Institute. He has published books on faith-learning integration, reflective study, and movies, contributing chapters to other books on education, apologetics, and science fiction.

Some of Eckel’s scholarly journal articles include writings on apologetics, a Hebrew ideals of education, faculty evaluation in higher education, interdisciplinary studies, failure in writing, how adults learn, the book Frankenstein, the author Stephen Crane, G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown mystery stories, “The Theological Roots of the Abolitionist Movement” and “From Stranger to Neighbor: Neurodiversity’s Visionary Opportunities.” He has written three dozen essays for two encyclopedia sets.

Eckel maintains weekly content on MarkEckel.com and has another website – warpandwoof.org – where over 1000 of his writings, videos, sermons, and podcasts are freely accessed. His weekly video series “Truth in Two” delivered 300 story-based Christian truths in 120 seconds. His latest video series, Give Me a Minute, has 100 videos. He completed a 100,000 word project producing biblical faith-learning interdisciplinary connections over 20 subject areas for international Christian curriculum development. Over four years Dr. Eckel has hosted a weekly radio show bringing in over 250 guests; Christians who are doing good around Indianapolis.

Mark’s wife Robin is a retired second grade Christian school teacher; between them, Robin and Mark have been teaching for a collective 70 years. They reside in Fishers, Indiana, sharing their gifts with Crossroads Community Church. Mark and Robin have two grown children. Besides family and friends, NFL football, Dunkin’ Donuts Coffee, lacrosse, books, movies, and maple sugar candy, Mark’s four grandchildren bring a smile to his face.

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