New Easter-season book explores the quiet faith crisis affecting believers worldwide
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Author Stanley Glancy
March 31, 2026
LONDON, March 31, 2026 /Standard Newswire/ — “I think God moved during the pandemic,” eight-year-old Emma told her mother, “and nobody told the grown-ups where He went.”
Her words name something many Christians have struggled to express ever since: not a loss of belief, but the exhaustion of trying to hold onto it.
Released this Easter by Notion Press, When Faith Feels Far: A Guide for the Weary, the Burned-Out, and Anyone Who’s Given Up on Faith is written for believers who still trust God but feel too tired, too numb, or too disillusioned to keep going – and don’t know how to say so.
“People aren’t necessarily walking away from God,” says author Stanley Glancy. “Many are trying to stay with God while carrying grief, stress, and the weight of ordinary life. Easter reminds us that new life often begins in places that feel like endings.”
Drawing on more than a decade of conversations with believers across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, Glancy uses fictionalised composites to reflect struggles many Christians quietly carry: Marcus, a church leader stretched thin by duty and expectation; Sarah, a single mother trying to stay faithful under financial strain; Elena, praying beside her daughter’s hospital bed nine months into treatment, finally setting down polished prayers for something honest: ”Yo God, I’m losing it.”
Across these stories, Glancy found a common thread: many traditional faith practices were built for stability – steady community, trusted institutions, predictable rhythms – that no longer match the realities of modern life. Spiritual burnout, doubt, and the loneliness of struggling privately in a pew now surface across cultures and denominations.
The book offers practical guidance for when prayer feels difficult, permission to rest without guilt, and honest support for holding faith and mental health care together.
When Faith Feels Far is available now in paperback and eBook through Amazon and major retailers worldwide.
About the Author
Stanley Glancy is a London-based writer and communications professional who has lived and worked in the UK, Germany, Switzerland, and India. He wrote When Faith Feels Far after years of conversations with believers navigating spiritual exhaustion, doubt, and the quiet weight of keeping faith alive in hard seasons.
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