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.
Government programs make promises, but families, churches, and communities do the heavy lifting
BOOKS | A memoir indicts America’s mental health system
Government won’t cure the problems of loneliness and alienation
The classic by C.S. Lewis still helps readers restore their full humanity, uniting head and heart
The time we leave this life is stamped from birth
The 1980s AT&T slogan might help a marriages harmed by phone snubbing
Evolutionist bemoans anti-scientific forces Darwinism helped unleash
Recent criticism of Florida’s curriculum by the U.S. vice president is part of a centuries-old debate
Charismatic teachers like Bill Gothard may fail, but Jesus does not
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