Russell Moore:
This week on “The Cross and the Jukebox” we’ll take a look at song that some have called “the anthem of the South.” For many who were born and raised in the state of Alabama, or the South itself, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama” evokes a love of home. But there’s much more to this song than regional pride.
In this episode, we’ll take a look at what this song is reacting against and what it’s speaking to, and we’ll see how the conflicted sense of guilt reflected in the lyrics can only be made sense of within a Christian worldview. We’ll see how this song echoes something that is true about a Christian longing for a homeland, alongside a recognition that we are at the same time sojourners in a strange land.
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