Christianity in Runrig’s music
One of my favourite bands is the Scottish folk/rock band Runrig. They primarily sing songs about Scotland, occasionally with an overtly nationalist bent but more typically about the Scottish landscape, history, people and culture; they also sometimes cover other themes. However, it was only after I’d been listening to them for about eight years that I realised some of their songs were explicitly Christian. Now, by ‘explicitly Christian’ I mean in the sense that some of U2’s songs are Christian,…