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.
Past wounds can be hard to overcome. But sometimes we look for healing in the wrong place. Janie B. Cheaney considers the man at Bethesda, looking to the pool for healing while Jesus stood right in front of him.
Apples of gold in a vast expanse of deep water
CHILDREN’S BOOKS | Two prominent children’s authors justify their profession
BOOKS | Sequel revisits themes of forgiveness, but with broken theology
When the alarm goes off and work feels futile, WORLD commentator Janie B. Cheaney thinks of Lazarus being called from the tomb—and of God calling her in the buzz of the alarm.
WORLD’s Janie B. Cheaney reflects on the old hymns that have carried Christian hope through generations of dark and uncertain times—and why their witness still matters now.
BOOKS | A series for fantasy lovers
The proliferation of anti-Semitism proves that too many people have abandoned the reality of the past
Women once supported suffering children. Now they rally around Lindsay Clancy as a symbol of maternal despair. WORLD’s Janie B. Cheaney considers the reversal.
WORLD commentator Janie B. Cheaney considers what a month-long screen fast revealed about the habits that crowd out deep thought, relationships, and the silence in which we learn to pay attention again.
