Marriage and Religion, Wet Year, Burnout

Marriage and Religion Guest: Jason Carroll, Professor of Marriage and Family Studies, BYU More and more adults in wealthy countries the world-over are skipping marriage or putting it off until they’re older. In the United States, this shift coincides with a move away from religion and more Americans say they do not affiliate with any religious tradition. Are those two things related? Religion typically encourages marriage, but it can also fuel conflict and inequality within couples. A global survey of marital satisfaction found –perhaps surprisingly to many –that highly religious couples enjoy higher-quality relationships and more sexual satisfaction, compared to couples who are not religious or those where one partner is less religious than the other.  The Wettest 12 Months in Recorded U.S. History Guest: J. Marshall Shepherd, Professor of Geography and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Georgia The United States is right now in the midst of the wettest 12-month stretch on record.   All across the Midwest, South and East, states have experienced above-average rainfall. Communities along the Mississippi River are under extended flooding because of relentless spring rainfall. Even dry Western states are largely flush with H2O. What’s going on? Burnout Isn’t Caused by Working too Much Guest: Josh Cohen, Psychoanalyst and Professor of Modern Literary Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London, Author of “Not Working: Why We Have to Stop” “I need a vacation. I am burned out.” A lot of us have said a version of that at some point. The implication is burnout comes from working too much. So then, you take that vacation, wrangling kids and luggage through airports, racing through your packed itinerary while keeping one eye on your phone for crises back home. And when you get back to the work of your daily life –whether it’s at home or on the job –that same feeling of running in place, never getting ahead but unable to jump off the treadmill is still there and the burnout embers are ready to flare. Why Do People