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.
Joni Eareckson Tada talks about the spiritual inspiration for her artwork. Singing, drawing, and painting are unique forms of expression for this evangelical speaker and writer and also a means of ...
In 1967, Joni Eareckson Tada was just 17 years old when she dove into shallow water and broke her neck, leaving her a quadriplegic and in a wheelchair. Today, she's an internationally known artist, a ...
Religion News Service: Want to succeed as a leader? Ask for help, says Joni Eareckson Tada
(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 ...
Want to succeed as a leader? Ask for help, says Joni Eareckson Tada
Growing up on a Maryland farm, Joni Eareckson Tada dreamed of driving an 18-wheeler or being a physical therapist. But life had other plans for the trick-riding equestrienne. In July 1967, she dove ...
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) Disability advocate Joni Eareckson Tada, long known as an evangelical icon and a wheelchair-bound quadriplegic who paints with a brush between her teeth, has faced a range of challenges since a ...
When she wakes up each morning, Joni Eareckson Tada must face another day without the use of her arms or legs. “I think, `I’m so tired of being paralyzed. I cannot do it anymore,'” she said. But then ...