Rolando Hinojosa-Smith four siblings, Hinojosa became a teacher; he has held several academic posts and has also been active in administration and consulting work. He attended the University of Texas at Austin and New Mexico Highlands University. Hinojosa received a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1969. Hinojosa has devoted most of his career as a writer to his "Klail City Death Trip Series," which comprises 15 volumes to-date, from "Estampas del Valle y otras obras" (1973) to "We Happy Few" (2006). He has completely populated a fictional county in the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas through this
Jesus for President that Christians should engage with government because God works through such institutions providentially. Joan Braune of "America", a Jesuit magazine, writes that "Jesus for President" implicitly supports Christian anarchism. In December 2008, Mark Tooley, then director of the Institute on Religion and Democracy's (IRD) United Methodist committee, wrote an opinion piece about "Jesus for President" in the conservative magazine "The Weekly Standard". Tooley is heavily critical of the book and of Claiborne, writing, "On so many different levels, Claiborne lacks moral and spiritual perspective." Tooley argues that "Jesus for President" is selective in its quotations from Church Fathers and instead