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.
As differences harden, politics becomes a choice between solid ground and empty air
A bold physicist says science will defeat religion, but we've heard that before
We've made adolescence a time of idleness when it could be full of good, hard things
Education has become an exercise in tearing down without rebuilding
When our work in this world seems futile, God is using it for unseen purposes
At the foundation of Western science is a theological warrant to be curious
With bureaucracy's triumph over excellence, important projects have stalled
Princeton's notorious Peter Singer turns his sights on human reproduction
Will a 100-year-old autobiography show an American icon grown bitter?
Study suggests children have a sense of morality at a very young age
