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Articles by Thomas M. Doran

About Thomas M. Doran

Thomas M. Doran is the author of the Tolkien-inspired Toward the Gleam (Ignatius Press, 2011), The Lucifer Ego, and Kataklusmos (2020). He has worked on hundreds of environmental and infrastructure projects, was president of Tetra Tech/MPS, was an adjunct professor of engineering at Lawrence Technological University, and is a member of the College of Fellows of The Engineering Society of Detroit.

An Unlikely Hero

September 26, 2016 Thomas M. Doran 0

If we desire a literary hero, Bilbo Baggins wouldn’t be at the top of the list. Even those who opt for a hobbit hero would likely gravitate to Frodo, or maybe Sam Gamgee, and many […]

Kicking the Can

July 14, 2016 Thomas M. Doran 0

The Twilight Zone episode “Kick the Can” is tailor made for Baby Boomers, who were kids when the episode first aired, and it appeals to the spirit of the age, the modern age, the age where […]

Human Liberty and “The Obsolete Man”

March 18, 2016 Thomas M. Doran 0

Is there a common thread between Christians and other “enemies of the faith” murdered by the scores in the Middle East, Africa, and elsewhere; “enemies of the state” beaten or disappearing in Russia, China, and […]

Harper Lee: A Tribute

February 23, 2016 Thomas M. Doran 0

For all the praise and accolades directed at Harper Lee, “serious” literary types have already weighed in, calling To Kill A Mockingbird a nice little story that doesn’t belong in the great literature category; simplistic, […]

Adventures in Logic: Are believers more rational than non-believers?

January 28, 2016 Thomas M. Doran 0

The modern catnip that only what we can measure is real reduces man to just another evolved organism, with human lives having no more permanent (transcendent) value than other organisms. As just another smarter organism, […]

The empiricists and their rubes

December 8, 2015 Thomas M. Doran 0

Catholic World Report recently published my mischievously titled “Why we’d all be Catholic if we really thought about it”, to which no small number of atheistic empiricists replied with loud roars. There’s no lack today […]

Why we’d all be Catholic if we really thought about it

November 23, 2015 Thomas M. Doran 0

In the modern world, where we shouldn’t presume to tell others what’s true and false, good and bad, or right and wrong, saying we’d all be Catholic if we really thought about it is sure […]

Faramir’s Rangers and the 21st-century Church

August 3, 2015 Thomas M. Doran 0

I’m not much for writing sequels to my own novels (though I’ve read some good ones by other authors), but feedback from my recent Catholic World Report article, “Denethor’s Ghost”, prompts me to offer a […]

Denethor’s Ghost: Lessons from “Lord of the Rings”

July 27, 2015 Thomas M. Doran 0

21st century Catholicism is up against it, not the first time in history but the first time for many living Catholics. The glorification of the lesbian-gay-transgender lifestyle is the newest commandment of the new religion […]

Surveys, Statistics and the “Decline” of Christianity

May 13, 2015 Thomas M. Doran 0

A new Pew Research Center survey suggests that those who identify as Christian have dramatically declined in the past decade, while those with no religious affiliation have dramatically increased. Is this a harbinger of the […]