Damon Bahr

Damon L. Bahr is a retired faculty member of Brigham Young University where he taught Doctrine and Covenants and Mathematics Education Courses. He teaches courses on the Kirtland era of the Church at Education Week and provides tours of Curch Historic Sites.

He is the author of 25 journal articles and three other books on Kirtland Church history, along with his co-author, Thomas P. Aardema--The Voice of the Lord is Unto all Men: A Remarkable Year of Revelations in the Johnson Home, Hearken Ye and Give Ear to Him: Revelations on the Isaac and Lucy Morley Farm, and Search, Ponder, A House of God: Kirtland Temple Stories and Revelations, and Search, Ponder, & Pray: Historic Kirtland Church History Travel Guide. He served a mission at the historic sites in Kirtland and Hiram, Ohio, along with his wife of 44 years, Kim, and they also served a Seminaries and Institutes mission in North Carolina. They also were invited by Community of Christ to conduct tours of the Kirtland Temple several times prior to the temple's acquisition by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They are the parents of four children and eighteen grandchildren. He has served as a full-time missionary three times, as a Primary and Sunday School teacher, a Bishop, Stake President, and a member of two MTC branch presidencies.