Warp and Woof | Writings by Mark Eckel - Latest Comments

Re: Arbiters

mom — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 11:58:48 -0000

What a sad country this would be if in fact we were ultimately directed by the few in Hollywood. Guide our minds Lord!

Re: Good

mom — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 11:47:41 -0000

Of course the last sentence is one to make me smile!! Sounds relevant to me!

Re: The Graveyard Schools the Schoolyard: Contemplation of Death for Education in Life

mom — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:40:55 -0000

You ARE serving your generation well - to God's glory!

Re: Brown

mom — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:20:41 -0000

I love reading your work and I love this photo and I love your heart for America and all it is!!

Re: God, philosophy, universities (MacIntyre)

BallBounces — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 06:45:05 -0000

Hello Mark. I tried sending an email via your site ("Contact") before posting here but kept getting Captcha errors. I tried again today and am still getting Captcha errors. I have tried using both Safari and Firefox.

Re: God, philosophy, universities (MacIntyre)

Mark Eckel — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 06:01:29 -0000

Hi Richard. See my bio page on this website to connect via email. Connect with me on FB as well. I would be please to interact with you about these issues. I certainly resonate with your situation. Loved your metaphor about reconstituted OJ! Peace, Mark

Re: God, philosophy, universities (MacIntyre)

BallBounces — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 09:09:38 -0000

Thank you for the review in Apologetics 315. I am seeking to develop a Christian stance towards epistemology and education. The seminary I attend is knee-deep in postmodernism. It seems Christian educators are enamored with the secular academy. It goes something like this:

1. Secular educators remove God from their theories and their thoughts.

2. The enamored Christian educator embraces the secular theories, with their faulty premises and attempts to add-in a Christian dimension.

It's like reconstituted orange juice. You remove the water, and then try to add it back in. It doesn't come out the same!

I am doing a DMin project on plagiarism at an African theological college. Plagiarism has dimensions of both academic (citation skills) and moral (not bearing false witness) development. If anything occurs to you I would appreciate hearing from you. Meanwhile, I shall track down the book!

Thank you, Dr. Mark.

Re: Bullies

Assurance46 — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:23:28 -0000

Thank you for this positive, invaluable article on just that---free speech!! How sad for those who read Dan Cathy's words as an indictment against individuals.

Re: God's Language is Math

Charlie Williams — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 20:44:32 -0000

Dr. Eckel,
What an enlightening article! I am very interested in learning more about how God created/uses mathematics. Please share your lessons with us.
Thanks,
Charlie Williams

Re: A Story of Transformation: Adult Learning Processes

Charlie Williams — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 15:46:20 -0000

Thanks Mark, this was quite insightful and very helpful.

Re: Immigration

ASSURANCE46 — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:47:25 -0000

"CITIZENSHIP IS A PRECIOUS COMMODITY" -- AND A VITAL BLESSING!!

Re: 50/50: Movie Review by Tyler Eckel

R Englund — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 01:30:13 -0000

Tyler that was an awesome review, I am blow away! Dude you are super talented.

Re: 50/50: Movie Review by Tyler Eckel

Mom/Gramma — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:51:37 -0000

You should do much more of this "free lance" work, Tyler!! You have such an unerring comprehension of these characters and their responses to Adam. As I read your work, my heart is filled with sympathy for him, but also for the lesser characters and their lack of compassion. This is a strength of yours---a gift---the ability to delve deeply toward the real needs of others.
Keep on keeping on, and God bless your bright mind!!

Re: 50/50: Movie Review by Tyler Eckel

Caverill — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 08:05:45 -0000

Well said, Tyler. I often wonder why I so quickly speak to advise rather than to empathize. I haven't seen the movie, but it sounds like "Wit." It was originally a stage play that uses Donne's poetry to comment about many aspects of life, love and suffering, but especially shows the evil in detaching from the agony of the person suffering.. I hope you write more reviews. I always enjoyed hearing your thoughts about things, even when you were a fourth-grader in my class many years ago at LCS.

Re: Tightrope: The Poets’ Walk

Derosset — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 08:50:11 -0000

I appreciated being introduced to this poet by a reviewer who understands what separates disciplined and crafted verse from obscure contrivance. The specific lines used sing in the reader's spirit, and the analysis leads one to long for more and educates the process of reading. Very articulate piece.

Re: Chronicle: Movie Review (with Tyler Eckel)

Mark — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 20:53:57 -0000

Yes, mom, it makes our heart hurt too. It's always my concern that people understand, if there is no transcendent standard there is no standard at all.

Re: Chronicle: Movie Review (with Tyler Eckel)

Mom/Gramma — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 19:59:42 -0000

I want to see this movie because you both had a piece of this review, and the last paragraph is thought-provoking. However, the last line -- "our only alternative: run faster than the bullet"? Reminds me of Columbine---could they? The whole subject makes my heart hurt!

Re: No Country for Old Men

Npiotrowski — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 09:34:42 -0000

Mark, thanks!
Your comments on the music, lack of smiles (save Chigurh's), and Texas landscape opened up to me the means the Coen brothers (and McCarthy) used to chill the bone... "No Country for Old Men gives young men pause."

Re: Stretching Skin: A Review of Creating with God (Jobe)

assurance46 — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:36:41 -0000

I remember reading this at an earlier date and feeling the way I do now after reading Chelsea's review. The author claims more than is "her right to claim"! Jesus is the Giver of life---this month Chelsea is His vehicle and she and her husband accept this role with delight and wonder!

Re: Tightrope: The Poets’ Walk

assurance46 — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 12:00:52 -0000

Ah-h Mark, you have such a sweetness toward this baby and this baby's Momma!! You say you don't know what or how to "anticipate", but you are doing just that in drawing your mind and heart to YOUR child and to your delight in her. It seems a reflection yet unknown toward this new life that will soon be yours to treasure as well!

Chelsea writes with depth yet a lightness that brings "light" to her review and makes you want to immerse yourself in this poetry. As her thoughts revolve around this child, my expectation is "love poems" in their purest form.

Thank you for sharing this beautiful "track" to your heart.

Re: Valor

assurance46 — Mon, 28 May 2012 13:00:09 -0000

It is with difficulty I approach this day because of the tears shed for even the unknown of all those who have made my freedoms possible! For sacrifices and bravery beyond imagination!
Heroism beyond belief and for those who wait at home in supplication for dear ones.
Thank you Mark for continually making us aware of our responsibility to care and pray for these who give so much!

Re: Mystery is an Embarrassment to the Modern Mind

assurance46 — Sun, 20 May 2012 18:18:08 -0000

Hi Dr. Eckel---u have done it again! Caused "everyman" to THINK --- hopefully to search for TRUTH!

Re: Kingdom Calling, Amy L. Sherman

Mark — Wed, 09 May 2012 10:38:23 -0000

It IS an amazing book! Go grab it! I miss those days too. It's great to hear from you here!

Re: Kingdom Calling, Amy L. Sherman

Cara Leger — Tue, 08 May 2012 15:25:56 -0000

WOW! This sounds like it's an amazing book! ...Wish I could just walk by your office and pop in for a visit! Oh, how I miss my days at Moody!

Re: Nation

Liz L. — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:08:47 -0000

History is, at its core, narrative - So it should be taught is more than just dates, places, and names (Though those are part of its framework). Teachers, I think, need to provide narrative as well - great people, events, and movements. In fact, I imagine that the monotonous repetition of dates, places, and names, with nothing else added, has made many students hate the idea of studying history.