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 ...

(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 ...

Evangelical author Joni Eareckson Tada, a quadriplegic for 56 years, says her entry into heaven will be like the end of a marathon. “Sometimes I think when I get to heaven, I imagine a celestial sandy ...

Jay Snellen is a wheelchair collections team leader for Joni and Friends’ “Wheels for the World” program. Joni and Friends is ...

Joni Eareckson Tada is driven forward by hymns of praise and her sovereign God. She begins every morning with a two-hour routine—washing, dressing, exercising. She needs at least seven helpers each ...

When a diving accident in 1967 paralyzed her from the neck down, Tada, then a teenager, questioned God and life itself. Decades later, the author and founder of Joni and Friends, a ministry for the ...

It was the summer of 1967 when Joni Eareckson Tada went swimming in the Chesapeake Bay near the Bay Bridge. Joni, who had just graduated from Woodlawn High School, dove off the raft. “Immediately, my ...

"Memory means everything to me," writes Tada. In this tender, beautifully written memoir, she reflects with vivid detail on the idyllic Maryland childhood that shaped her Christian faith and the 1967 ...