Alone Yet Not Alone – Joni Eareckson Tada – Faith Stories You Won’t Forget

Alone Yet Not Alone – Christian Movie and Haunting Song by Joni Eareckson Tada

Alone Yet Not Alone is a low-budget movie with Christian themes.  After a short test run the autumn of 2013, the movie was scheduled for wider release the spring/summer of 2014.

Wikipedia describes the film and its origins below.

Alone yet Not Alone is a 2013 American historical adventure drama film directed by Ray Bengston and co-directed by George D. Escobar (Advent Film Group), starring Kelly Greyson, Jenn Gotzon, and Clay Walker. The film gets its title from the German hymn “Allein, und doch nicht ganz allein” which the Leininger family frequently sang together,^[2] and is based on Tracy Leininger Craven’s novel of the same name and the true story of Barbara and Regina Leininger, who were forcibly taken from their Pennsylvanian German immigrant family’s home by the Delaware Indians in the 1755 Penn’s Creek Massacre during the French and Indian War.

The film is frequently labeled as a Christian movie.^[3] It was awarded the 5 Dove seal of approval from The Dove Foundation.^[4] Alone yet Not Alone also received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2013 for its title song, “Alone yet Not Alone”, though the nomination was rescinded two weeks later.^[5]

A song of the same name sung by an unknown singer, and unlikely choice for a movie sound track, was nominated for an Academy Award in January of 2014.

The nomination was rescinded when a controversy concerning possible ethics violations by the songwriter Bruce Broughton’s name being attached to the submission came to light.

The disqualification has brought more controversy as to whether this small entry is being held to a hypocritically high standard when other large budget entries throw parties, and engage in other obvious ways to bring their entries to the Academy’s attention.

The real story, however, is not an Academy Award Nomination.  The real story is that the unknown “singer” is then 64 year old Joni Eareckson Tada.  Joni has an amazing life story after a diving accident at the age of 17 left her a quadriplegic.

Joni’s determination to overcome her disability and to make something of her life has already been the subject of a bestselling autobiography and a movie.

She is on my short list of “Heroes (and Heroines) of the Faith”.

Read her one-page Bio at this link:

https://www.joniandfriends.org/about/our-leadership/

 

Listen to her recording session for Alone But Yet Alone on the YouTube video. Don’t miss the Academy Award Nominated (briefly) performance.

 

And, if you are still interested in more detail on the incredible accomplishments of this woman, watch the Larry King interview she did a few years ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Foffh-gneRs

Taken together, her story is one we all should know and, if we do, we certainly won’t forget it.

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Alone Yet Not Alone – Joni Eareckson Tada – Faith Stories You Won’t Forget

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