(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 ...

It was a warm summer day in 1967 when Joni Eareckson, 17, who grew up in a churchgoing family in Woodlawn, decided to jump from a raft into the Chesapeake Bay. She overestimated the water’s depth and ...

The Evangelical Council for Abuse Prevention is expanding its safety standards to help Christian churches and ministries protect persons with disabilities JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Evangelical Council ...

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 ...

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 ...