KIM LAWTON, correspondent: Before cancer, Joni Eareckson Tada lived an extremely busy life. One of the longest surviving quadriplegics on record, she led an international Christian ministry for people ...

(RNS) — Good leaders are often told to play to their strengths and hide their weaknesses. That has never really worked for disability activist and nonprofit leader Joni Eareckson Tada. Paralyzed from ...

She sits down in a standup world. “I often feel alone in that regard,” said Joni Eareckson Tada, author, artist and international advocate for people with disabilities. A quadriplegic in a wheelchair, ...

As part of a week-long chapel emphasis on “Different, Not Less Than,” Bethel welcomed Joni Eareckson Tada on March 28. Tada was injured in a diving accident at age 17, leaving her a quadriplegic, and ...

Over 30 years have passed since Tada (Diamonds in the Dust; More Precious Than Silver) became a quadriplegic as the result of a diving accident. Tada, who has inspired both the able-bodied and ...

When Joni Eareckson Tada was 17 years old, her life changed forever. “I broke my neck in a diving accident in 1967, and suddenly I was thrust into this uncomfortable, alien world,” she said. “It was ...

Agoura Hills, CA, July 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- For 35 years, the Americans with Disabilities Act has ensured legal safeguards that protect people with disabilities from discrimination in ...

In the video, above, Joni Eareckson Tada is taped as she prays before recording 'Alone yet not Alone' for the soundtrack for the movie of the same name. Well worth the 4 minutes, 43 seconds, to watch ...

Now facing breast cancer and chronic pain, the author, speaker, and advocate talks about the blessings of suffering. Joni Eareckson Tada might be mistaken for a modern-day Job. The disabilities ...

Joni Eareckson Tada, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Joni and Friends International Disability Center, is an international advocate for people with disabilities. A diving accident in 1967 ...

In Joni Eareckson Tada's world, the real tragedy isn’t that Brittany Maynard is terminally ill. It’s that she’s chosen to manage her suffering in a way Tada finds personally offensive. Two weeks ...

(UPDATED) Tada hopes all the attention will ‘extend the message and impact’ of song from ‘Alone Yet Not Alone,’ once one of five Oscar candidates for best original song. While I can only imagine the ...