Author
- Mark Nickens is a native of North Carolina and currently lives in the rural town (no stoplights!) of Sandy Ridge, NC, just north of Winston-Salem. He is married to Teresa, who is a high school art teacher, and has one daughter, LindsayAnn, who is a Ph.D. student in Old Testament at Dallas Theological Seminary.
- Degrees:
- B.A. in Religious Studies from Wingate University.
- M.Div. from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
- Ph.D. from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1999
- Since 1994, Mark has taught at over 20 seminaries, universities, Bible colleges, and Bible institutes in the USA as well in the Caribbean, Asia, and Africa.
- He teaches classes through a small unaccredited school he created and operates called "Trinitas Bible Institute."
- Mark has made presentations at academic meetings as well as written articles for academic journals, a national denominational magazine, and for several encyclopedias.
- He has worked with over 25 Christian institutes and seminaries in other countries as they develop online programs, especially since Feb 2020 when the pandemic forced many countries to close all their schools. He teaches classes for professors and administrators learning how to teach online classes through The International Council for Evangelical Theological Education Academy.
- The second edition of his church history textbook, A Survey of the History of Global Christianity, is available on Amazon (Published: December 15, 2020), available here
- Mark’s future publication plans involve writing short Church History books for sale in the series "Church History in 50 Pages" and adding classes to Trinitas Bible Institute.
- Book Series: Church History in 50 Pages
- How We Got the New Testament: Canonization, available here
- 50 New Testament Apocrypha before AD 200: Summaries, Heresies, and Errors, available here
- How We Got the Old Testament & 30 OT Apocrypha Summaries, available here