Tim Breene

Tim Breene is an author at Religion News Service.

All Stories by Tim Breene

When it comes to global conflict, churches are the best solution we never think of

By Tim Breene and Scott Arbeiter — September 6, 2019
(RNS) — There is a solution that can help us connect with the needs of communities in faraway places, one that sits on many street corners in our downtowns and backroads in our country and theirs: local churches.

On World Refugee Day we must be willing to separate truth from ‘willful blindness’

By Tim Breene — June 20, 2017
(RNS) Our society too easily equates the admission of refugees into this country with the threat of terrorism, largely because the policy has become a partisan ideology, not because this viewpoint is substantiated by facts.

Security is not everything

By Tim Breene — January 30, 2017
(RNS) You have to go back to the 1970s, to the era when I was still in Belfast, to come up with a single case of an American citizen who was killed in a terrorist attack perpetrated by someone who came to the country as a refugee.
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