Faith

Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good falls into the Christian Fiction genre, so the theme of faith permeates the entire book. The central character, Timothy Kavanaugh, is a retired priest. Being a priest is ingrained in his identity and it isn’t a trait he can simply turn off. In fact, when he is confronted by Hastings’ father who questions him about wearing his collar while at the bookstore, Timothy tells him it is who he is. He also tells the man that while he will refrain from speaking with Hastings about God, he will not stop talking about God. This sharing of the faith is central to Christianity in that it is the way in which the religion grew since the disciples spread the religion by travelling after the death of Jesus and telling others about Him. Timothy, as a priest, has been commissioned to go...