(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 ...

It’s said you should never meet your heroes. But Joni Eareckson Tada is different. I first heard Joni speak when I was 15 years old, sitting in the balcony level of the Waterfront Hall in Belfast. I ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before the passage of the ADA, people with disabiliies often lacked access to public acccomodations. Some efforts, like this ramp, did little to fix the problem. · GlobeNewswire Inc. Advising ...

KIM LAWTON, correspondent: Joni Eareckson Tada is a woman of many talents. She’s a bestselling author, an acclaimed artist, and an internationally known advocate for people with disabilities.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was the summer of 1967 when Joni Eareckson Tada went swimming in the Chesapeake Bay near the Bay Bridge. Joni, who had just ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every age has faced its global demons, whether the holocausts of the 20th century, or the Mongol invasions of the 1200s that resulted in the conquest of much of Eurasia. Somewhere in between, in the ...