Bunhill Fields Burial Ground

Today I visited the Bunhill Fields Burial ground and the Wesley House. Bunhill Fields is the resting place of many Nonconformists (that is, those folks who did not remain in the Anglican Church but were Congregationalists, Presbyterians, and Baptists, etc.). Several of my heros are burried here, but regrettebly on Saturdays they gate off the paths through the markers, so I'll need to go back next week. Among those whose graves I did see are:

• John Bunyan (Baptist minister; author of Pilgrim's Progress)
• Daniel Defoe (Author of numerous books, including Robinson Crusoe)
• John Rippon (Baptist Minister, compiler of a hymnbook used widely for over a century)
• Joseph hart (Hymn writer and preacher)

This cemetary really is a striking contrast to the massive glass and concrete structures that surround it. I saw kids riding their kick scooters, joggers, and folks sitting to have lunch on the benches around the perimeter of the Fields. I kept wondering, "Do they know that just a few yards away lie the remains of some of the most influential English Chrstians who ever lived?"