Sexagenarian "religious leader”

Thanks to The Independent newspaper on 16 December for elevating me in age and status. According to the Indie’s Portfolio: Our leading religious figures I am a 68-year-old aristocrat and, well, a “religious leader“.

Let’s get this straight. I am 58, the younger son of a Baron (who died when I was 11), and a member of the UK Baha’i community’s national governing council, none of whose members has any kind of individual authority. It is almost impossible to persuade people that, although I am an elected member of the Baha’i National Spiritual Assembly, I am not anything like a religious leader. The Baha’i Faith just doesn’t do religious leaders.

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