(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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shelby Hintze and her friend Kayla Duganan’s daughter, Elena Gomez, 3, play with fridge magnets at her home in Salt Lake City on ...

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 ...

Oak Brook, Illinois, May 16, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In a special public appearance, Christian speaker and disability rights advocate Joni Eareckson Tada will take the stage at the 30th annual Global ...

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 ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Joni Eareckson Tada is a Founder for the Joni and Friends Ministry with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2002 News Conference as a Director ...

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 ...

Question: How best can one insult and undermine people with abilities that differ from the norm? Answer: Refer to them by their impairment. No, this is not a performative woke comment, it’s basic ...