John McCandlish Phillips is a former reporter for the New York Times (1955-1973) and a co-founder of the New Testament Missionary Fellowship Church (Westchester, N.Y. and NYC).

Gay Talese, author and former Timesman, is quoted as stating, "McCandlish was the Ted Williams of the young reporters. He was a natural. There was only one guy I thought I was not the equal of, and that was McCandlish Phillips."

The New Yorker has called McCandlish Phillips "legendary," "brilliant," "much talented," and "more interested in the truth and texture of a story than in scoring a scoop."

Ken Auletta has written of Mr. Phillips, "Among the outstanding journalists who worked in the Times newsroom in those days - Gay Talese, David Halberstam, Gloria Emerson, J. Anthony Lukas, Richard Reeves - Phillips was widely thought to be the most gifted writer."

McCandlish Phillips is the author of City Notebook and The Bible, the Supernatural and the Jews. He is the author of the popular free WJI monograph "Faith in the Daily News Chase."