Rubén Hinojosa Rubén Hinojosa Rubén Eloy Hinojosa (born August 20, 1940) is a former U.S. Representative for , serving from 1997 to 2017. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district stretches from Seguin (east of San Antonio), to McAllen on the Mexican border. Much of the region is rural although Hidalgo County is part of the third-fastest-growing metropolitan statistical area in the country. Hinojosa served on the House Financial Services and Education committees. Hinojosa was born in Edcouch, Texas. The eighth of eleven children, Hinojosa was reared in Hidalgo County, which borders on Mexico, and earned two business degrees,
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