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Jerry Root at the Bunhill Fields Burial Grounds: I’m sitting here in a famous London cemetery called Bunhill Fields. If you were an Anglican, you could be buried in an Anglican cemetery. But if you weren’t an Anglican, you had to be buried in a non-conformist cemetery. And this is one where there were many interesting people in both theological Read more...
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Behind me is Westminster Abbey, and of course, as you know, it has a tremendous history here in England. It’s a graveyard for about a thousand people, and 2,000 others are memorialized here. But someone buried in the Abbey and his burial there caused controversy, was Charles Darwin, who was born in 1809. He’s the one who wrote The Origin Read more...
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The Isaac Watts Statue Abney Park stands as a lasting tribute to Isaac Watts, one of the most influential figures in the history of English hymnody. Located within Abney Park Cemetery in London, the statue commemorates a man whose writings have shaped Christian worship for over three centuries. Isaac Watts spent the latter part of his life in the home Read more...