Dr. Mark Eckel is Professor of Old Testament at Crossroads Bible College who also lectures at Mahseh Center.

For over twenty five years Mark has served the Christian education community as a high school teacher, college professor, and international speaker. Mark’s responsibilities have included daily instruction, curriculum development, mentoring teachers, and conference speaking on Christian education issues in hundreds of venues. In 1995 Cedarville University selected Mark as the Delta Chi Teacher of the Year.

Mark’s original curricula Let God Be God: The Nature and Characteristics of God and Timeless Truth: An Apologetic for the Reliability, Authenticity, and Authority of Scripture have served the Christian school movement around the world. In 2006 Mark consulted with Chuck Colson to produce a curriculum for high school students called Rewired. Since then he has produced both online and print curricula for various ministries.

In addition to the publication in 2003 of The Whole Truth: Classroom Strategies for Biblical Integration, Mark has published multiple articles, most recently in Integrite (Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009) on faith-learning integration evaluative standards for professors, adult learning through the eyes of Ecclesiastes, and Hebrew ideals of education.  Perspectives on Your Child’s Education: 4 Views (Broadman & Holman, 2009) contains Mark’s chapter and responses on covenantal Christian education.  He writes on political-cultural issues through a Christian lens each week.  Mark is currently working on a book about classic horror literature.

Mark is a featured speaker and writer on faith-learning integration, worldview, culture, film critique, apologetics, education, curriculum development, instructional methodologies, and Christian school philosophy. Mark is an ordained minister having earned a Th.M. in Old Testament studies and a Ph.D. in Leadership with a concentration in higher education.