Newly released Spencer W. Kimball diaries shine a light behind the scenes of modern Mormonism

The former LDS president’s writings offer a peek behind the curtain of the 1978 priesthood/temple revelation and his relations with church leaders.

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) President Spencer W. Kimball and his wife, Camilla Kimball, at the Peter Whitmer Sr. farmhouse in Fayette, N.Y., in 1980 to commemorate the sesquicentennial of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Newly released Spencer W. Kimball diaries shine a light behind the scenes of modern Mormonism

The former LDS president’s writings offer a peek behind the curtain of the 1978 priesthood/temple revelation and his relations with church leaders.

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