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.
Gratitude sees beyond our circumstances “to the One who created them—and us”
When atheists start to think about God—or at least a simulation
Christians in any age can reject paganism by defending the weak and vulnerable
BOOKS | After 1776, the West became weird and WEIRDER
Israel has a fraught and mystifying past and present
It will be hard to find agreement on moral education
Free speech is important, but it doesn’t require children to have access to books with graphic content
BOOKS | Author holds doctrinaire Darwinism to account
A re-paganizing West and its sacrifices
Perhaps the ebb and flow of time surprises us because we were made for eternity
