Living Knowledge

Brian Hudson Sartor is my name. Two good friends started calling me "BH" in college. My wife calls me that, too.

I am a minister in North Carolina. I have been a hospice chaplain since 2012. Prior to that I worked in building trades, a co-op grocery, and in young adult ministry. I was also a stay-home dad for a few years.

I grew up in Clinton, Mississippi. I attended Dallas Baptist University (Texas) and Beeson Divinity School (Alabama). I lived in Chapel Hill, NC, for a long time but am now in Concord, NC.

My wife, Nicole, and I have been married since 2014. I have one grown child from a previous marriage and three grown children from my marriage to Nicole. She is from New Hampshire and is an outstanding Pediatric Complex Care provider and NP. We met as co-workers in the NC Children's Hospital, and now we get to see the world through each other's eyes every day.

I enjoy simple things: music, books, ideas, conversation, quiet hours, walking, and being outdoors. Hiking and backpacking with friends has shaped my ideals for living. I find deep rest and purpose in one thing: the faithful presence of God. His life in me is my core identity, and I am learning slowly to let that be known by loving others accordingly, especially within my most familiar relationships.

Additionally, I have always been interested in the relationship between my Christian faith identity and our contemporary culture. I have pondered it since I was a teenager in 1990. The presence of God in Christ (in you and in me) is, I believe, directing us by the Holy Spirit toward insight on this vital issue.

It became apparent to me long ago, even more so recently, that Christians need to change the way we relate to culture. Enmity is pervasive, but Christian insight would keep us from making it worse, were we to recover it. Moreover, Christian faithfulness would see enmity abolished, more and more, in our own homes first, then also in our cultures, as it is already abolished in Christ (Ephesians 2:14-16).