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.
We deceive children if we don’t tell them about original sin
An Englishman tries to embrace Islam and the West
America may or may not have a fine future, but believers definitely do
A great hymn came from the pen of a troubled—and troublesome—man
Calls for social justice are sometimes just ruinous calls for payback
A brief history of alienation
Mental illness, like physical illness, may afflict Christians in this world
Janie B. Cheaney | Children’s novels of the year: When the ordinary becomes extraordinary
Janie B. Cheaney | Children’s nonfiction book of the year: One theologian’s struggle to understand God and defeat Hitler
