Clarity in everything. Amen.

First it's Sir Jim Rose's report on the primary school curriculum pointing out that lotsa kids can't talk proper, innit, and now the Church Times carries a plea (1 May, p12) for better microphone techniques by the clergy in the interests of clarity and comprehensibility.

Quite.

But also in the same issue of Church Times is this, from a book review (by a high-up clergy person) :

"Heidegger's place in the philosophical canon as a critic of calculative rationalistic thinking and as the great rehabilitator of ontology is well established.  His work may be familiar to readers from the use made of it by existentialists."

- a book, moreover, published in a series which

"...seeks to avoid the nihilistic, reductionist alternatives of scientism and deconstruction through interdisciplinary theological interventions in familiar philosophical debates."

Er - yes. Quite.