St. As
The Second Book — God with Us: The Issy Trilogy
by Lisa Samson & Leonard I. Sweet · Salish Sea Press · 2021
Book summary
A semiotic and devotional collection that reads saints, signs, stories, and cultural fragments as prompts toward the presence of God.
Chapter & section guide
Opening Movement
The reader is invited to see faith through fragments and signs.
Saints as Living Signs
Holy lives point beyond themselves toward Jesus.
Stories
Narrative carries theological meaning through memory and surprise.
Culture
Popular images and ordinary artifacts are treated as spiritual texts.
Practice
Attention becomes a discipline for recognizing grace.
Community
Signs are interpreted more faithfully with others.
Closing Movement
The book returns perception to worship and witness.
Editorial note: these are original thematic summaries prepared as a research and reading aid, not quotations from the book itself.