Michael Jimenez

Michael Jimenez is associate professor of history at Vanguard University. He is the author of Remembering Lived Lives: A Historiography from the Underside of Modernity. He is currently researching the influence of Cesar Chavez’s nonviolent activism and the recent history of Costa Rica.

Revisiting The Mission

Michael Jimenez | November 16, 2023

Roland Joffé’s classic leaves us with a taste of heaven—and a taste of hell

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REVIEW: Elisabeth Elliot: Missionary, Writer, Booklover

Michael Jimenez | October 18, 2023

The life of an austere evangelical celebrity takes on warmer hues in this new biography

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José Figueres and the Costa Rican Path of Peace

Michael Jimenez | June 12, 2023

In the midst of civil war, an unusual alternative changed a nation

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REVIEW: A Focused Gaze on Words

Michael Jimenez | April 26, 2023

Suspicion of a text is easy. Trusting is hard.

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