Lion's Roar

JAN CHOZEN BAYS

I WAS BORN IN CHICAGO in 1945, on the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. My parents were pacifists during WWII (not a popular position), and they were very saddened by the bombing.

I was raised in a liberal Protestant church, and my mother believed that God was love. When I was a teen we spent two years living in Korea,

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