Joni Eareckson Tada

ABOUT JONI EARECKSON TADA

Evangelical writer and radio personality known for her Christian-themed books on the subject of people with disabilities. Her titles include Choices...Changes, A Step Further, and When God Weeps.

At the age of seventeen, she suffered a diving accident that left her a quadriplegic. She later published a memoir detailing her physical and emotional rehabilitation in the years following the life-changing incident.

She established Joni and Friends, a Christian foundation catering to the spiritual needs of disabled people.

She and her husband Ken married in the early 1980s and settled in Calabasas, California.

Like Superman actor Christopher Reeve , she became disabled as the result of a sporting accident.