October 2023

Peoria-based Samaritan Ministries is part of a rising trend of health care consumers choosing sharing ministries to pay medical bills Anthony Hopp turns a bit sheepish when recalling the first time he depended on Samaritan Ministries International to cover medical claims. At the time, the Peoria-based health care sharing ministry,

So believes the Unitarian Universalist Church, where embracing diversity,  in religious thought and everything else, is in the DNA Asked to summarize the Unitarian Universalist (UU) Church, the Rev. Jennifer Innis cuts right to the chase: “We are a community of fully human people working from a foundation of love

‘Whatever he tells us to do, we do it,’ says the imam at Peoria’s growing Islamic Center During a sweltering Thursday evening amid a mid-August heat wave, the Islamic Center of Peoria hummed with activity. It was Orientation Night for the upcoming year at Daarul Uloom School, the private Islamic

Central Illinois has a small but energetic Jewish population, with two synagogues and a faith that provides a roadmap for how to act The Peoria area’s small Jewish community, estimated in the hundreds, differentiates itself by being a diverse community despite its size, with observant and non-observant Jews, mixed religion