Preaching books are many, but not often do books deal seriously with a theology of preaching. In How Odd of God: Chosen for the Curious Vocation of Preaching (Westminster John Knox), William Willimon draws on his study of Karl Barth’s doctrine of election to consider “the wonder of the preaching vocation and the oddity of a God who would call the likes of me to preach.” Anything Willimon writes will be thought provoking, and this book will be of particular value to those of us who preach and sometimes wonder, “Why me?”
