My Favorite Preachers
Adrian Warnock asked for some thoughts on the favorite preachers across the blogosphere. I didn't have to think hard at all. Here are my top 5 along with some thoughts and links.

Walter Brueggeman
While not known primarily as a preacher, under the incredible scholarship and insight is a preacher- and a person of prayer.

• Link to a sermon (in RealAudio) on Day1

William Willimon
Willimon, now a United Methodist Bishop called the chapel at Duke his home pulpit for over 20 years. His ability to challenge and comfort in such a setting is nothing short of exciting. Well worth reading his books, too.

• Sermon on Day1
• Text from 30 Good Minutes and one in RealAudio.

Barbara Brown Taylor
Taylor is an Episcopal priest who has made preaching the center of her vocation. She can turn a phrase into the Good News as well as anyone. She also understands the power and the problem of preaching.

• interview at Religion and Ethics Newsweekly
• Calvin College January Series (with a link to hear a lecture.)
• Some sermon texts at Explore Faith

Tony Campolo
THE evangelical story-weaver par excellence. I had the good fortune of meeting Tony over 25 years ago when his reputation was just beginning to grow. He has only gotten better with time.

• 30 Good Minutes has 15 of Tony's sermons, some with video.

and no. 1

Fred Craddock.
It was May, 1981, just after my daughter was baptized, that I met and sat at the feet of Fred Craddock at our Moravian Minister's Conference. To listen to this man preach is nothing short of transformational. He tells stories that ring with such truth they ache with beauty. He brings scripture alive by making sure the story is heard and then heard again in a different context. I listened to his tapes for years and then heard him again in Chicago when I was working on my D. Min. His preaching gave me permission to make my preaching mine. He let me know, as Campolo has done as well, that there are more ways to preach than the three points and exposition of scripture. I have never been the same- and some of his stories ring in my head today.

No links to sermons were found in my quick search. As a Superstar preacher, his books are all over the place.

And One More for Good Measure, in a class all his own:
Fredrick Buechner! Novelist, preacher, essayist extraordinaire!
Find four of his sermons at 30 Good Minutes.