New Home!

After some 36 years in the GTA, it was time for change. Jim has moved from the east side of Toronto to west of Toronto, and from city to country. Now enjoying life on a beautiful little hobby farm, Jim is also closer to three of his siblings who live west of Toronto. 

Jim back in Canada

Jim is now back in his home in Pickering, Ontario.  He will return to Mexico as soon as he is able, but given all the uncertainties around the corona virus epidemic, it is hard to know at this point exactly when. Meanwhile, he continues to study Spanish and work on the Patmos Project ministry.

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Jim in Mexico

Jim is investing time and energy into learning Spanish in order to facilitate international exposure of The Patmos Project. In 2016-1017, he spent 6 months in Cancun, Mexico, and also traveled extensively throughout Mexico. Since March 1, 2018, he has been living in Xalapa, Veracruz. Xalapa is not a tourist city, and thus will provide a better environment for Jim to learn Latin culture and develop his Spanish more proficiently.

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Jim on the Drew Marshall Show, April 23, 2016.

Jim was invited to be a guest on the Drew Marshall show. It was a first for him, being on public radio. The interview was short but great opportunity to start speaking to a wider audience. Click here and scroll down to listen to the interview.

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Announcing a public talk by Dr. James Christie,
“Big Change Coming: the world as we have never seen it before.”

Thursday, May 5, 6:30PM
Palmerston Theatre, Toronto Public Library
560 Palmerston Ave., Toronto.

Mass shootings. Terrorism. Anarchy. Passenger jets downed. Rampant homicide. Cartel violence. Beheadings. Whole communities taken hostage. Suicide bombers.

“And another horse came forth, a red one, and authority was given to its rider to withdraw peace from the earth, and that people would kill one another; and a great sword was given to him.” Apocalypse 6.4

Thus reads just one of the global predictions from the Apocalypse of St. John the Divine that point to imminent, drastic changes ahead. This and five other “precursor” prophecies, although almost 2,000 years old now, are coming to fulfilment before our very eyes.

Is it time to take them seriously? Is it time to pay attention and prepare ourselves? Are worse things yet to come?

We invite anyone interested to come; explore with us and join the conversation.

 

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Syrian refugee crisis? ISIS? Or something bigger?
Editorial Press Release by Dr. James Christie
March 28, 2016

Refugees continue to stream into Europe by the hundreds of thousands, and apart from the humanitarian crisis this is creating, there continues to be concern that hiding in the flow of refugees are ISIS extremists looking for easy entry into Europe and beyond. According to CNN, U.S. Air Force General` Philip Breedlove “warned that the mass influx of migrants is allowing ISIS to spread ‘like a cancer, taking advantage of paths of least resistance and threatening European nations, and our own, with terrorist attacks.’” [http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/02/europe/nato-general-migrants-terror/index.html]

This, of course, adds a serious complication to the already difficult challenge of providing sanctuary to refugees, because careful screening of every single person must be built into the whole process. Is it actually possible to intercept all covert extremists? Perhaps; at least we can hope.

However, even granted that this might be accomplished, an even greater challenge looms before us. It may theoretically be possible to prevent the physical migration of extremists, but is it even hopeful that the migration of an ideology can be prevented? Take, for example, the recent case of the San Bernardino tragedy in which 14 people were killed. The husband of the couple responsible, Syed Rizwan Farook, was born in Illinois. The attack is now widely considered to have been an act of “terrorism,” but this perpetrator was not an immigrant. Any ideology he had embraced found its way to him right at home in America.

All this is just the tip of an iceberg. Extremist terrorism is a growing threat, to be sure, but there is the further reality of non-terrorist violence that rings all too frequently in our ears; things like passenger airliners deliberately scuttled, mass shootings, and homicide plain and simple (which creates annual numbers of victims far outnumbering any other form of violent crime.) It may be terrorism that strikes fear into our hearts, but death by violence is a problem far more encompassing than terrorism alone, and one that seems to be increasing with time. Is this development “fixable,” a temporary social “glitch” that will soon just be a memory? Or is there something bigger going on here?

A prediction made in the document we know as The Apocalypse of St. John the Divine pictures a world-wide development like this, a picture too close for comfort. The document as a whole forecasts a fixed time ahead for humanity’s global community that is to be stressful indeed; and it predicts six specific precursors to that time, forebodings that arise much as encountering Alberta’s foothills betrays proximity to the Rocky Mountains. The six predictions are given in symbolic language, but likely we can get the message of this one: “Another, a red horse, went out, and to its rider it was granted to steal away peace from the earth, and that men should slay one another; and a great sword was granted to him.” This is not a prediction of war; other predictions in the document speak more specifically about that. This is a prediction of non-centralized, non-state violence: people killing people.

As already stated, the prediction has a global purview, and the increasing violence that we are witnessing is a global phenomenon. Because we are in the West, we are not so sensitive to places on earth that seem to us remote; but in certain African countries, for example, non-state violence is of late taking a terrible toll. Are we seeing an unstoppable trend, or is this only a momentary hiccup in the human journey? Perhaps it is time to take a good look at this and the other five predictions which the Apocalypse makes, and see if wisdom does not demand that we start preparing ourselves for hard days ahead.

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Gold for The Gold Mine!
Aug. 28, 2015

Dr. James Christie is delighted to announced that his book launch of The Gold Mine has won “Best Single Booth in Show” at the 2015 CNE. The booth is creating fun for adults and children alike, and its hand painted, hand made features have drawn attention even from trade show experts.

Jim took the fledgling “Patmos Project” to the Canadian National Exhibition in 2014 to begin a conversation with people about what is happening in our world, and where it is all headed. It was a bit unusual to have a booth in “The Market Place” and not have much of anything to market except an idea. However, the response was positive from many passers-by, and the same type of audience is stopping again this year. Some are winning a book by playing in “the gold mine” sandbox; others are purchasing.

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Public Launch of The Gold Mine
Aug. 21, 2015

From Aug. 21 – Sept. 7, Dr. James Christie will be publicly launching his new book, The Gold Mine, at the Canadian National Exhibition. The response to Jim’s booth at the CNE in 2014 was so positive that a public launch of his book there in 2015 has seemed the only logical option. 

In general it was an audience of younger adults, couples building their families, university and high school students, and even some junior highs that showed interest in talking with Jim last year. His book was edited into its final form with this audience somewhat in mind, and he looks forward to meeting many of them again this year and getting his book into their hands.

This year’s booth will be fun, and there will be lots of freebees!

 

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New Book Release!
June 8, 2015

A new book by Dr. James Christie entitled, The Gold Mine, now available on Amazon.com and elsewhere. This book provides a credible and understandable reading of the Apocalypse of St. John the Divine. Rather than another attempt to create a sensational forecast of gloom and doom for the world, this book finds in the Apocalypse meaning and purpose as has hardly been imagined before.

The subtitle points in this new direction: “What they didn’t tell you about the end of the world.” Jim shows that, actually, the Apocalypse is not at all a book focused on the end of the world. It is a book about the Creator of all things who is following His carefully designed plan to mine as much gold as possible from the journey of mankind.

Gold? Yes. People who discover that they want the Creator as much as the Creator wants them.

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The Patmos Project is at the 2014 CNE
Aug. 15 – Sept. 1, 2014

It may be a bit unusual to have a “market place” booth in the CNE and have only an idea to market, but that is what Dr. James Christie is doing this year as the summer comes to an end. One of the things that Jim learned from his professors at the University of Toronto is “know your audience.” Before one publishes a book or a movie or any other form of communication, it is best to know who is going to be listening.

Who would the listeners be for something like “The Patmos Project”? It is an exploration of end times prophecies that come from the Apocalypse of St. John the Divine, but not in the sense of thrill seeking. Melodramatic forecasts are not the goal of The Patmos Project, but a serious and sensible comparison of what the Apocalypse predicts, and what is happening in our world. Have we entered the beginning of the “end times”? And what, by the way, actually is meant by “the end times”?

Jim is at the CNE to meet people, engage in conversation, listen to ideas, and share ideas of his own. This is the first step towards what he hopes will be a very professional “interpretive, dramatic reading,” in audio/video format, of the text of the Apocalypse. Before getting very far along in this production, he is very interested to know who will be listening!