Physics, As Explained Using Your Ex-Girlfriends

0. Newtonian gravity is your high-school girlfriend. As your first encounter with physics, she's amazing. You will never forget Newtonian gravity, even if you're not in touch very much anymore.

1. Electrodynamics is your college girlfriend. Pretty complex, you probably won't date long enough to really understand her.

2. Special relativity is the girl you meet at the dorm party while you're dating electrodynamics. You make out. It's not really cheating because it's not like you call her back. But you have a sneaking suspicion she knows electrodynamics and told her everything.

3. Quantum mechanics is the girl you meet at the poetry reading. Everyone thinks she's really interesting and people you don't know are obsessed about her. You go out. It turns out that she's pretty complicated and has some issues. Later, after you've broken up, you wonder if her aura of mystery is actually just confusion.

The full list is here. Hat tip to someone, but I can't remember whom.

Preaching faith and science

I once heard Adam Hamilton of Church of the Resurrection say that he tried to plan topical preaching series that might be attractive to nominal church attenders, and offer those series immediately after holidays like Christmas and Easter when you might get the attention of new people. With that approach in mind, I decided that I would see if the topic of "faith and science" would get any traction for a post-Easter preaching series and am planning to spend three weeks on the topic.

Any advice on how to handle the topic from the pulpit? Any experiences with this topic becoming a wedge issue within a congregation? I am both excited and nervous about doing this, so guidance from the experiences of others would be great!