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.
Children should have rights, not only ‘best interests’
American public discourse severely lacks ‘heartedness’
The manipulation of images and voices is moving off the sidelines
The Supreme Court wasn’t supposed to have the mighty authority it claims
Our forebears, despite their sins, have much to teach us if we’ll listen
Suicide leaves an unfilled space, and a pain that remains
Man has a long history of hating the human body, but God called it ‘good’
It’s difficult to thread the needle of public policy with private virtue
Granting rights to nature only grants power to self-appointed guardians
