Gordon interviews George Karkanis, an Athens-based forensic psychologist, psychotherapist, and behavioral analyst, who explains forensic psychology as the study and legal-application of psychology in criminal contexts (offenders, victims, investigations, trials, and reports). George describes transitioning from IT to forensic psychology through counter-trafficking ministry, choosing a role that supports trafficked women without being their therapist, helping them “redefine” men as trustworthy through safe relationships. He discusses psychology as science plus art, emphasizing skillful, adaptive practice beyond rigid protocols, and describes behavior analysis including micro-expressions and communication cues. George shares his special forces paratrooper service and how it built resilience and innovative thinking. He also works with offenders, integrating faith and identity change, and trains Eastern European police and prosecutors on vicarious trauma, proposing four pillars for healing: identity, intimacy, cognition, and emotion.

00:52 Meet George Karkanis
01:04 What Forensic Psychology Is
02:44 From IT to Anti Trafficking
04:48 Serving Trafficked Women Safely
08:19 Psychology Science and Art
13:17 Behavior Analysis Micro Expressions
15:54 Skill Versus Knowledge
18:54 Special Forces Mindset
22:18 Working With Offenders
28:38 Restorative Justice Stories
31:25 Training Law Enforcement
35:55 Healing Vicarious Trauma
36:29 Four Pillars Framework
40:35 Closing Thanks

Ugandan Supreme Court Justice Mike Chibita discusses his roles as a Supreme Court justice since early 2020 and as Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) from 2013–2020, explaining Uganda’s criminal justice system, appeals process, and the Supreme Court’s caseload. He describes learning about victims’ rights during a visit to Adelaide through Advocates International, leading him to create a victims’ rights desk, encourage prosecutors to engage victims beyond evidence, and build partnerships with groups such as Children at Risk Network and Viva International. Chibita contrasts the Supreme Court with the DPP’s extensive constitutional powers, intense media scrutiny, and life-threatening terrorism cases, including the killing of prosecutor Joan Kagezi, and recounts coping through prayer and family support. He reflects on humble beginnings, discipline learned at King’s College Budo, COVID-era court adaptations, observations about mortality, and his books “Loved by the Best” and “Leaders Grieve Last.”

00:48 Meet Justice Chibita
01:00 From Prosecutor to Judge
01:45 What a DPP Does
03:08 Putting Victims First
04:57 Learning in Adelaide
08:33 Partnerships That Help
11:16 Life on the Supreme Court
14:05 COVID Shuts Courts Down
16:39 Time Passing on the Bench
19:03 The Weight of DPP Power
23:25 Prayer Under Pressure
24:55 Assassination Plot Letter
26:11 Family Facing Threats
28:02 Humble Roots to Buddha
31:32 Discipline and Work Ethic
33:19 Writing and Health Scare
37:16 Books and Leaders Grieve
39:54 Faith Reflection and Farewell

In an interview about her book, "A Woman of Many Names: My Journey From Sexual Exploitation to Freedom," Ilona Miler explains that returning to Jesus motivates her to share her past so God can make a triumph from it and give hope to exploited women. She recounts being trafficked by a “lover boy” who isolated and manipulated her into prostitution, her suicidal despair and a providential encounter that kept her alive, being forced to work through pregnancy and giving up her baby for adoption. Decades later, after praying and “putting it in God’s hands,” she found her daughter in 2019 via an online search linked to a restaurant, reuniting with her family and learning she has four great-grandchildren. Miler also describes childhood trauma with a rage-filled grandfather, being stabbed by a client in Marseille, her escape from her pimp, and later ministry with drug-addicted and prostituted women in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Vienna.

00:46 Why Share the Story
02:24 The Blessing and Family Hope
03:09 Searching for Her Daughter
04:04 A Prayer Answered in Vienna
05:57 Found Through the Restaurant
07:27 Returning to Spain in Victory
08:49 The Loverboy Trap Explained
09:45 Isolation and Manipulation
13:22 Suicidal Despair and a Stranger’s Hope
14:28 Pregnancy Alone and God’s Provision
16:30 Reunited With Children and Faith
17:48 Childhood Wounds and Grandfather’s Rage
21:09 Grandfather Dies Freedom
22:09 Money Friends And Hippies
23:05 Stabbed By Client
25:14 Hospital Shame And Mercy
27:35 Escape Plan And Germany
29:51 No One Chooses Prostitution
32:15 Return To Jesus
35:14 Serving Women Worldwide
36:36 Lives Changed By Ministry
38:45 Real Name Real Freedom

Carla is a British–Caribbean follower of Jesus who has spent the last six years in Beirut helping churches in the Middle East and North Africa walk with young people under pressure. She shares about growing up as a mixed‑race pastor’s kid in a mostly white English town, the intense expectation to be “perfect,” and how a mission trip to Kenya and reading the entire Bible at 16 transformed her from a double‑life teenager into someone deeply shaped by Scripture and the stories of the persecuted church.

That sense of call eventually took her to Bible college, then into serving persecuted Christians, and finally to Lebanon—alongside her husband Steve, who chose to share her calling even when it meant leaving an Oxford academic path. Carla explains what persecution looks like specifically for teenagers whose faith and ethnicity make them minorities, drawing on the book of Daniel and her work helping churches become the safest place for young people to return without shame.

She also describes life in Lebanon through revolution, economic collapse, the Beirut port blast, and the aftershocks of October 7 and the Gaza war, including the psychological warfare of sonic booms and the horrific “pager” explosions of 2024. Through it all, Carla’s love for Lebanon and its ancient Christian communities has deepened, as she continues to help young believers build resilient faith in one of the world’s most fragile contexts.

00:46 – Meeting Carla in Lebanon
01:46 – Growing up mixed‑race and a pastor’s kid
03:46 – Wrestling with church and finding faith
08:46 – Teenagers, smartphones, and anxiety
11:59 – Called to stand in vulnerable places
15:59 – Theology, Bible college, and unexpected detours
17:59 – Praying for the Middle East and a new job
18:59 – Meeting Steve and the call to Lebanon
20:59 – Engagement, marriage, and the big move
22:59 – Shared callings and marriage in the Middle East
23:59 – Building resilient young believers under pressure
25:59 – Daniel, empire, and identity
28:59 – Minority life in MENA education and culture
29:59 – Making church the safest place for youth
30:59 – Crises in Lebanon: revolution, collapse, and COVID
34:59 – Psychological warfare and sonic booms
31:59 – Surviving the Beirut explosion
32:59 – Economic collapse and the cost of staying
33:59 – October 7, Gaza, and Lebanon on edge
38:59 – Pager attacks and a week of horror
41:59 – Evacuation, waiting, and returning again

In this episode of Faith without Frontiers, we meet Palmira de Sá from Angola, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, domestic violence, and racism who now walks alongside other survivors with the hope of Christ. She shares how God protected her as a child, met her in a Muslim-majority country with no church, and led her through a costly journey of forgiveness that even astonished a psychiatrist. Palmira also exposes systemic failures in Angola’s police, courts, and churches—where half of reported child sexual abuse cases happen in church contexts—and explains why silence, bad theology, and cultural patriarchy keep victims unprotected. Today she leads “Prince and Princess,” an association serving survivors and training church leaders, and is partnering with Angola’s First Lady to confront abuse as a national and ecclesial crisis.

Guest: Palmira de Sá, co-founder of Prince and Princess Association, Angola

This episode contains detailed descriptions of child sexual abuse, domestic violence, racism, and suicide ideation. Listener discretion is advised.

00:48 Meet Palmera
01:00 A Name Like a Train
02:16 Childhood and Family Split
02:42 Poisoned Food and No Justice
05:33 Abuse While Mom Worked Away
06:46 Trying to Tell and Punished
09:29 Teen Crisis and Coping
10:43 Healing in Algeria
11:22 Learning to Forgive
14:39 Psychiatrist and Faith
16:13 Racism and Assault Abroad
22:34 Back to Angola and Speaking Out
24:03 Police and Church Failures
28:37 Working for Change
31:35 Report Abuse Legally
32:02 First Lady Workshop Plans
32:37 Shocking Church Statistics
34:45 Televised Case Sparks Action
35:49 Dream And Unexpected Ally
37:02 Avoiding Compassion Fatigue
39:41 Why Churches Stay Silent
42:42 Tragedy After Reconciliation
45:00 Abuse Across Africa
47:16 Jesus And Culture Change
51:02 Ezekiel 16 Healing Identity
55:43 Hopeful Closing Encouragement

What does it mean to lose your home — not just the walls and roof, but the place where you belong, where you are known, and where you meet with God? In this deeply moving conversation, Valentyn and Luba Syniy of the Tavriysky Christian Institute (TCI) in Ukraine share their firsthand experience of war, displacement, and faith.

Valentyn, a theologian and seminary president, was born and raised in Kherson — a city that once had 350,000 residents and now has fewer than 60,000. When Russia occupied Kherson, he made the painful decision to evacuate the entire seminary — students, professors, and all — first to western Ukraine and then to Kyiv. Meanwhile, his elderly parents and his father, a pastor, stayed behind through nine months of brutal occupation.

In this interview, Valentyn and Luba open up about:
• The Russian military using TCI’s 15-acre campus as a military base and looting their library
• The emotional wound of a Russian evangelical volunteer who stole Valentyn’s Bible and used it to teach soldiers at night
• Losing staff and students to war — including a chaplain killed by a mine and a soldier killed by a drone
• The deep theological meaning of “home” — as family, city, church, and nation
• New Ukrainian churches planted across Europe by refugees
• TCI’s new master’s programs in Chaplaincy and Peace Building
• Why true reconciliation between Russia and Ukraine requires repentance first
• Valentyn’s upcoming book in English: Serving God Under Siege: How War Transformed a Ukrainian Community (releasing October 2025)

Guest: Valentyn and Luba Syniy, Tavriysky Christian Institute (TCI), Ukraine
Book: Serving God Under Siege: How War Transformed a Ukrainian Community by Valentyn Syniy
• Ukrainian/Russian title: The Man Whose Home Was Stolen
• English release: October 2025 | Publisher: Eerdmans Publishing

00:45 Meeting the Syniys
01:15 Book Title and Theme
02:05 Leaving Kherson
04:25 Family Split and Parents Stay
07:33 What Home Means
11:22 Seminary Under Occupation
14:26 Economic and Emotional Toll
15:28 Betrayal and Grief Stories
22:57 Rebuilding and New Programs
24:45 Church Growth in Diaspora
27:37 Chaplaincy and Peacebuilding
31:50 Reconciliation and Repentance
34:43 Serving God Under Siege
39:02 Closing Thanks