Word by Word, the 12th annual Writer's Symposium by the Sea, will be held on the Point Loma Nazarene University campus Feb. 21-23, 2007 in conjunction with the Wesleyan Center Conference “See, the Prints of Love,” an event focusing on writers’ and artists’ depiction of the Christian life.

Featured guests of the Writer's Symposium include Anne Lamott, author of Bird by Bird, Traveling Mercies, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith, and Operating Instructions, and Eugene Peterson, scholar-pastor and author of The Message, Under the Predictable Plant, and Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places.

An interview with Lamott, conducted by Dr. Dean Nelson, head of the journalism program, will be at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 21. She will also speak that morning in student chapel, which starts at 9:45 a.m. On Friday, Feb. 23 at 2 p.m., Eugene Peterson will speak, with a book signing to follow. Tickets for the Lamott and Peterson interviews are $15 for each.

In honor of the 300th year since Charles Wesley’s birth, the Wesleyan Conference will host lectures, discussions, an exhibit and a concert.

John Tyson, professor of religion at Houghton College; Tom Albin, Dean of the Upper Room Chapel; and Patrcik Eby, Drew University, will speak at a dinner and discussion on Wesley’s contribution to the spiritual life on Thursday, Feb. 22, 4-7 p.m. Cost is $10. Later in the evening, a concert of Wesley’s hymns will be led by Bradley Garvin, a singer with the New York Metropolitan Opera, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for the performance are $15.

Register for the Wesleyan Center Conference, See, the Prints of Love, at the Wesleyan Center Spring Conference Web site. You may also register for these events online through the Writer's Symposium Web site.