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.
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
Janie B. Cheaney | A wave of activist-themed children’s books has surged in the Trump era
Janie B. Cheaney | A Q&A with author and illustrator John Hendrix
Janie B. Cheaney | Our 2019 Children’s Books of the Year stand out from an increasingly troubling crowd
Psychology group offers a confused take on masculinity
Parenting is important, but God made children to grow up to be individual independent selves
The history major is dying of self-inflicted wounds
