Janie is a senior writer who contributes commentary to WORLD and oversees WORLD’s annual Children’s Books of the Year awards. She also writes novels for young adults and authored the Wordsmith creative writing curriculum. Janie resides in rural Missouri.
The temporary loss of congregational singing highlights its unique value
God has purposes—millions of them—in the current pandemic
Proposed executive order challenges soul-crushing architectural fads
Beware of big dreamers who don’t sweat the details
Not every hardship is a disaster
Janie B. Cheaney | A TIME FOR VIGILANCE: Children need their parents not only to guard against objectionable books but to promote good ones. The titles in the following pages are books to consider
Janie B. Cheaney | BECOMING A GENTLEMAN: How tragedy can produce an honorable young man
Janie B. Cheaney | AGAINST THE ODDS: How God planned the steps of a girl with deformed feet
Janie B. Cheaney | Painful memories, but also hope and faith, inform the work of poet Nikki Grimes
