Where We Find Ourselves: Portrait of a Modern Infidel

On Christmas Day, 6-year-old Randolph runs into the family room and cries, “Daddy!” Two men – William and Cyrus – answer his call. In his quest to unravel the mystery of two fathers, which leads to a reunion with his birth mother and the exposure of grim secrets William tried to bury half a century ago, Randolph rediscovers himself. Thirty-three years after that ominous Christmas Day, as William tries to atone from his deathbed for a lifetime of deceit, Randolph realizes that he has solved a far greater question: Does God exist? The practical implications of his answer will astonish you.

Where We Find Ourselves is a true story, told by one of those rare individuals in whom the old world and the new coalesce. In this tale of betrayal and liberation, R. Thomas Risk enlists the analytical skills of a lawyer, the savvy of an investigator and the eloquence of an award-winning poet to forever change your perception of society’s sacred institutions – the three most insidious of which are Religion, Celebrity and National Politics … a positively unholy trinity.

Randolph Thomas Risk was born in 1965 asking Why. He died in 1987 convinced that he knew Why. He was resurrected early in the new millennium, having discovered that Why has no answer.