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.
… cursing the image-bearer. AI developers are beginning to worry about the feelings of their creations, restricting users from bullying their chatbots. But Janie B. Cheaney wonders why those who tiptoe around the sensitivities of machines can be so quick to curse fellow human beings.
Past wounds can be hard to overcome, but sometimes we look for healing in the wrong place. Janie B. Cheaney considers the lame man at Bethesda.
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.
