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.
The one thing that makes every other good thing possible
Revival depends on good leaders as well as humble followers of Christ
From ancient Greece to modern America, marriage has anchored civil society
Human anger is as old as Cain, but Christ calls us to restrain it
What it takes for an entire culture to embrace death
Evil is not a thing in itself but a void where goodness has been rejected
Weakness shakes our sense of dignity, yet in Christ even humiliation can glorify God
President Carter’s school choice collapse made depoliticizing education a lot harder
Learning to think still starts with learning to write
