My woodcut of Thomas Jefferson, completed in 1976. We know a lot more now about TJ than we did then. But he was president in 1803 when The American Baptist magazine was founded. I was editor of the magazine in 1976, and I wanted to take note of its founding.
Philip, a synodical deacon in the ELCA Metropolitan New York synod, is a retired communicator for American Baptist Churches USA, the U.S. Conference for the World Council of Churches, the U.S. National Council of Churches, and two Philadelphia area daily newspapers. He and his spouse, the Rev. Dr. Martha M. Cruz, are the parents of six adults and are members of St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Rye Brook, N.Y. They live in Port Chester, N.Y.
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