September
2012
Volume 56, Number 8
![September September](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/22856.jpg?h=510&w=380)
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Cover Stories
![Meanwhile, Love the Sojourner Meanwhile, Love the Sojourner](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/24809.jpg?h=123&w=220)
How Phoenix Christians are helping illegal immigrants as they wait for the economy—and the law—to change.
Katelyn Beaty and Skye Jethani
![Mercy-Full Nurse Mercy-Full Nurse](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/24811.jpg?h=123&w=220)
Charlotte Thrall provides free medical care to Phoenix's poor and undocumented immigrants.
Mark Moring
Features
![What's His Is Ours What's His Is Ours](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/13808.jpg?h=154&w=220)
Christ's righteousness belongs to those who receive by faith God's promise of forgiveness.
Sarah Hinlicky Wilson
![The Second Coming Christ Controversy The Second Coming Christ Controversy](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/13783.jpg?h=123&w=220)
David Jang has become an increasingly influential figure in Asian and now American evangelicalism. He and his followers have founded media outlets and a Christian college and are key influencers in the World Evangelical Alliance. But many say he leads a group that has encouraged the belief that he's the 'Second Coming Christ.' Is there any truth to the allegations?
Ted Olsen and Ken Smith
![A New Age of Miracles A New Age of Miracles](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/13809.jpg?h=154&w=220)
Around the world, wherever churches are growing, reports of the miraculous are rampant. What do they mean?
Tim Stafford
!['God's Double Agent' 'God's Double Agent'](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/13810.jpg?h=154&w=220)
One-time atheist and now head of ChinaAid, Bob Fu believes China may soon have one of the largest populations of Christians worldwide.
Interview by Tim Morgan
![Caught Between the Spouse and the Spirit Caught Between the Spouse and the Spirit](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/13812.jpg?h=154&w=220)
Brazilian women find support and new roles at charismatic churches. Their husbands don't like it. Whom will they choose?
Deborah Swerdlow in IcapuĂ
Views
Reviews
![Will America Keep the Faith? Will America Keep the Faith?](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/13817.jpg?h=154&w=220)
Journalist David Aikman wonders whether our nation will squander its spiritual heritage.
Thomas Kidd
![A Jerusalem Lost A Jerusalem Lost](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/13818.jpg?h=154&w=220)
Melanie Kirkpatrick's 'Escape from North Korea' describes how the country descended into tyranny and madness, and why its people want out.
Robert Joustra
Brief reviews of 'Turning Points,' 'Gauguin, Cezanne, Matisse,' and 'With the Night Mail'
John Wilson